Government Quotes - Page 205

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.