Quotes about Government
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
— James Madison
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
— Ronald Reagan
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
— Ludwig Borne
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
— Charles Finney
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
— Will Rogers
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
— Andrew Jackson
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
— John Adams
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
— George Washington
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
— Edmund Burke
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
— Malcolm X