Quotes about Government
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
— Alice Walker
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
— Andrew Jackson
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
— Alexander Hamilton
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
— Calvin Coolidge
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.
— Thomas Jefferson
The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.
— Mike Huckabee
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
— Thomas Paine
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
— Mark Twain
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
— William McKinley
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
— William Wilberforce