Quotes About Balance

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

Government governed least is government governed best.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

Government is a necessary evil