I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history
one which piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs or reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer. We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people."
"Campaign Address on Agriculture and Tariffs at w:Sioux City, Iowa (29 September 1932)
1930s
„Eine amerikanische Regierung kann nicht zulassen, dass Amerikaner verhungern.“
Original englisch: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." - A Crossroads Of Freedom. The 1912 Speeches Of Woodrow Wilson. Yale UP 1956, p.130 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/crossroadsoffree007728mbp#page/n155/mode/2up; The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Princeton UP 1978, 25:124 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=FjsfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22the+subjects%22
Der Staat (The State, 1893), Rede vom 9. September 1912 vor dem New York Press Club
Die Nacht der langen Messer … fand nicht statt, in: Der Spiegel, Jg. 3, Nr. 21, 19. Mai 1949, S. 21, spiegel.de
1994, Archiv Demokratischer Sozialismus (ADS), spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/sahra-wagenknecht-so-sprach-die-betonkommunistin-fotostrecke-66874-2.html
Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte. Bd. 1: Die Vernunft in der Geschichte, hg. v. Johannes Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1994, S. 19
Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte
Grundlagen des 19. Jahrhunderts
„Die Regierung besteht aus uns; wir sind die Regierung, du und ich.“
