Quotes About Government

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society