Quotes About Government

Law never made men a whit more just.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.

As the government is, such will be the man.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years