Government Quotes - Page 39

The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.