Quotes About Government

I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Apparently Doctor Thomas went to Charles Grant in London," continued Andrew Fuller, uncharacteristically subdued. "Grant is now one of the Directors of the East India Company. Thomas was refused licenses. Apparently the government is no longer indifferent to missionaries but hostile...

When a country goes to war, men can no longer operate free and open laboratories. The Government would like to know what you are doing. Businesses became corporations, the individual thinker became unpatriotic.

If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv'd for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

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.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.

The Government that is ahead of the people will inevitably be dragged down to their level, as the Government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up (p.10).

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.