Government Quotes - Page 49

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

A leader - whether in the home, church, business, community, or government - has authority due to her role, but her positional power will not bring about good for individuals or organizations unless it is backed up by the capital of character.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.

If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.

Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.