Quotes About Government

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.