Quotes About Balance

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.