Quotes About Government

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.