Quotes About Government

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.