Quotes About Government

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

One with the law is a majority.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.