Quotes about Government
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
— Abhijit Banerjee
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
— Grover Norquist
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
— George Washington
Some amount of support from government and regulator is required when you are looking at resolving systemic issues.
— Arundhati Bhattacharya
Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.
— Richard Baxter
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).
— Richard Baxter
If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?
— Richard Baxter
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
— John Quincy Adams
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
— Harry S. Truman