Quotes about govern
government people
Tell the Government, our people shall not starve. Ellen Wilkinson
government law class
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. Ray Stannard Baker
government use answers
I would answer with the words of the Stasi alumnus Wolfgang Schmidt, who was asked that question: "What about these Americans who say, I have nothing to hide?" And he said, and I quote: "This is very naïve. This is the reason that the government collects the information in the first place to use against you. The only way to prevent that is to prevent the information from being collected in the first place." End quote. Ray McGovern
government needs earth
Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for? Ray Davies
government miracle liberty
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. Thomas Jefferson
government people liberty
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
government office political
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
government world aristocracy
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
government masters servant
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
government ideas sheep
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.
government people liberty
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
government citizens taxation
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
government criticism intention
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
government departure ingredients
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism...
government newspapers
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
government grows
As government grows, freedom recedes.
government justice house
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.
government political tyranny-founding-fathers
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
government paper paper-money
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
government trying libertarian
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
government administration common
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
government degrees public-opinion
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
government citizens may
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
government years long
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.
government abuse bars
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.
government principles commentary
The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
government
That government that governs least governs best.
government europe america
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.
government newspapers
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
government citizens function
To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
government occupation becoming
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.
government imperfection comparison
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
government law democracy
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.