Joseph Hume Quotes

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

I stand for the square deal.... I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and reward.

The important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions.

Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity.

Fishing reminds us that all men are created equal before fish. They don’t jump on a President’s line any faster than anyone else’s.

Our goal is a classless society.

Democracy is not the ideally best form of government … unless it can be so organized that no class, not even the most numerous, shall be able to reduce all but itself to political insignificance, and direct the course of legislation and administration by its exclusive class interest.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

It is unquestionably the duty of the industrial classes, by means of the ballot, to speedily take the Government into their own hands, but in doing so to do justice to all.