Quotes About Government

Little wonder that one congressman warned that "government by committees, boards, bureaus, and commissions will, if unchecked and uncontrolled, destroy the republican conception of government"—or that a senator deemed one of the agencies a "star chamber," the arbitrary, juryless court of Stuart despotism, where due process (as first laid out in Magna Carta over 800 years ago and reiterated in the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment) had no place.

Busing, affirmative action, and abortion are but the three most glaring areas in which the justices have made law from the bench, with no constitutional license to do so.

What would George Washington—whom the Senate declared didn't need its approval to dismiss Senate-confirmed executive-branch officers, since he alone was responsible to the voters for their actions—have to say about the civil service rules and union protections that make the whippersnappers so difficult, and often impossible, to fire? Even Franklin Roosevelt thought bureaucrat unions an absurdity.41

The practice of creating independent regulatory commissions, who perform administrative work in addition to judicial work," Roosevelt himself admitted, "threatens to develop a 'fourth branch' of Government for which there is no sanction in the Constitution."33

James Madison, always at the vortex of the fierce disputes over what measures these enumerated powers implied as necessary and proper, concluded—after serving for a quarter century as a congressman, secretary of state, and president—that the bedrock constitutional principle was simply to ensure that America does not "convert a limited into an unlimited Govt.

It's hard to count the ways in which the administrative or regulatory state overturns, abolishes, and usurps the Constitution.

Though citizens are safe from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are not." By essentially abolishing the public use clause, the Court has subordinated individual rights to the arbitrary will of the government, Thomas remonstrated. "I do not believe that this Court can eliminate liberties expressly enumerated in the Constitution.

As James Madison put it, because men are not angels—because they can (and do) rob, rape, kill, and conquer—they need a government to restrain and protect them, an "institution to make people do their duty.

But since such an institution is made up of imperfect human beings with the same unruly passions as anyone else, "In framing a government of men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."3

We all learn about how the Constitution's framers accomplished that delicate balance through the three branches of government and the separation of their powers: democratically elected representatives frame laws to do the voters' will, which the elected president executes, unless the Supreme Court deems them unconstitutional.

But that small government of limited and enumerated powers hasn't operated for nearly a century.

There is nothing of democratic self-government in the "command" of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.

Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution.

There is a danger in Christians supposing that they simply have to be flaky, awkward, against the government all the time, continually doing things upside down and inside out. Some people of course seem to be born that way, and use the gospel imperative as an excuse for foisting their own cussedness or arrogance on everyone else.

In the United States, whoever you vote for, you still get a millionaire.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.

The idea that a child him- or herself may be an active agent influencing the systems of family, school, and government was first proposed by Bronfenbrenner (1979).

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

Governor Winthrop despised democracy, which he brusquely labeled "the meanest and worst of all forms of Government." For Puritans, the church and state worked in tandem; the coercive arm of the magistracy was meant to preserve both public order and class distinctions.