Ram Nath Kovind Quotes

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility …

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction: we'll give you something, but we demand something back; the way he would phrase it is, 'We'll give you opportunity, but you have to take responsibility.'

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

The stress on the moral basis of policy and action, belief in unity and discipline, faith in a synthesis of heritage and science, and promotion of the rule of law and of education - all of it is located in a partnership between citizen and government.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

A body politic is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

… we need to know ourselves, not only our own little group or our own little part of the country, but the country as a whole and all its people. This will inspire in us an even greater fervor of spirit to see our country attain the ideals we have always cherished.

Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.