Quotes about govern
government energetic free-government
A free government is of all others the most energetic. Thomas Jefferson
government ifs presses
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
government
Government governed least is government governed best.
government years voting
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.
government purpose abandoned
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
government people mind
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
government people historical
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
government principles spirit
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.
government hands mind
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
government feet acting
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.
government wish taxation
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
government useless honest
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.
government citizens civil-rights
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
government done intention
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
government should-have freedom-of-speech
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
government history historical
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
government order giving
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
government latter newspapers
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
government revolution patriot
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
government politics littles
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
government people politics
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
government liberty libertarian
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
government order people
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.
government liberty body
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
government america giving
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.
government america people
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
government liberty constitution
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
government people united-states
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.
government justice citizens
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
government would-be submission
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
government people honest
Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.
government politics aristocracy
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
government class political
For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so? Robert Higgs