Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 1384 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.~ James Burgh The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.~ Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.~ Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.~ Edmund Burke Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.~ George Burns After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.~ George Herbert Walker Bush Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel Butler A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor.~ Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.~ Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. The statute mandating recitation of the pledge [of allegiance] is secular because it aims to foster democracy, which is both necessary to the survival of the concept and entirely independent of religion. [...] It is clear in the 2001 [Virginia] state law that no student is forced to accept the beliefs the pledge espouses.~ James C. Cacheris The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.~ John C. Calhoun A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.~ John C. Calhoun Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.~ John C. Calhoun Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.~ John C. Calhoun The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.~ Albert Camus Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print