Quotes About Government

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.