Government Quotes

"The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people." "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure" "Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame" "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "I think the government must govern as the citizens allow it to govern." "We do not talk to terrorists, we destroy them." "The strengthening of our statehood is at times deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism." "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it" "It is essential to the happiness of a nation that it should have an efficient and dignified system of justice." "By covenant only, that is to say, by mutual contract, he becomes subject to civil laws." "The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act" "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced" "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" "For more than 200 years, our democracy has been distinguished by the peaceful transfer of power" "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society" "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty" "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground" "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government" "We need trust in the dialogue between citizens and their government"