Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Henry Knox

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

Henry Knox

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Henry L. Stimson

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

Henry Clay

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Henry Clay

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Henry Clay

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?

Johann Lamont

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Joe Lhota

Government should steer, not row.

Joe Louis

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Joe Lhota

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

Joe Lhota

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

Joe Lhota

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Joe Lieberman

There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.

Fred Thompson

If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.

Fred Thompson

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

Maggie Gallagher

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Hamid Karzai

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

Gustave Courbet

I too am a government.

Gray Davis

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All government is an ugly necessity.

John Dryden

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

John Marshall

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.

John Marshall

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.