Quotes about Government

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

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

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.

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.

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.

'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.