Quotes about govern
government revolution patriot
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance. Thomas Jefferson
government politics littles
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
government people politics
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
government liberty libertarian
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
government order people
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.
government liberty body
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
government america giving
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.
government-debt people revolution
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
government america people
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
government liberty constitution
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
government people united-states
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.
government justice citizens
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
government would-be submission
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
government people honest
Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.
government politics aristocracy
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
government sight people
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
government judging finals
The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.
government wealth oppression
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.
government medicine littles
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
government america united-states
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
government practice people
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude... The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy to avoid burdening the people.
government medicine rights
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
government-debt independence liberty
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
government people southern
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
government liberty unjust-laws
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
government deserve
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
government historical despair
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively. Robert Higgs
government class political
For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?
government long unemployment
Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.
government four twenties
Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
government use today
If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.
government succeed groups
But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.
government going-away mountain
We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road. Rick Santelli