Quotes about Government

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.

The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.