Quotes about Government
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
- William Howard Taft
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
- Roger Williams
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
- Thomas Paine
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
- Thomas Paine
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
- Thomas Paine
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
- Thomas Jefferson
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
- Eric Metaxas
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
- James Madison
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
- George Washington
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people
- Will Rogers
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
- Will Rogers