- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government Quotes
Testimony, accountability and risk assessment.
These "government" quotes come largely from public testimony and accountability — speakers describing appearances before Congress and the basic expectation that citizens deserve clear answers from officials. For related themes, see Business quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
- Purity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its proper sphere of action.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020