Government Quotes - page 10

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. (Jeremy Bentham)
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.... View quote
Joe Biden
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined... View quote
Carroll Quigley
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. View quote
Federico Fellini
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. View quote
George Bancroft
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. View quote
Todd Akin
That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. View quote
Frank Herbert
We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. View quote
Winston Churchill
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence. View quote
Winston Churchill
That fatal drollery called a representative government. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. View quote
Joseph Stalin
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. (John Maynard Keynes)
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. View quote
Edward Abbey
The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever. View quote
Adam Smith
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. View quote
Gerald Ford
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower