Quotes About Government

Mr. Harappa,' the Angrez television interviewer is asking, 'many commentators would say, there is a widely-held view, some sectors of opinion maintain, your opponents allege, what would you say to the suggestion, that by some standards, from certain points of view, in a way, your style of government might be described as being perhaps, to some extent ... (...)

The machine of state bearing down upon its enemies.

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

Secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy.

the United States government will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran." What form our government's intolerance will take remains unspecified. I await a knock on the door.

Bush White House

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.