Quotes About Government

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

All political power is a trust.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.