Quotes about govern
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. Thomas Jefferson
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.
government benefits bears
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
government errors giving
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error and error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free inquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free inquiry been indulged at the era of the Reformation, the corruption of Christianity could not have been purged away.
government evil separation
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
government
Those are governed best who are governed least.
government energetic free-government
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
government ifs presses
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
government
Government governed least is government governed best.
government years voting
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.
government purpose abandoned
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
government people mind
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
government-welfare government-debt historical
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
government people historical
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
government principles spirit
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.
government hands mind
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
government feet acting
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.
government wish taxation
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
government useless honest
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.
government citizens civil-rights
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
government done intention
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
government should-have freedom-of-speech
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
government history historical
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
government order giving
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
government latter newspapers
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter