Government Quotes :: Finest Quotes

~ The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society ~

Shirley Mount Hufstedler

~ The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests ~

Patrick Henry

~ Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption ~

James Garfield

~ Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all -- inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all ~

Thomas Sowell

~ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy ~

Lyndon Baines Johnson

~ A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children ~

Lyndon Baines Johnson

~ Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe ~

Christine Lane

~ Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?-now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it ~

Mark Twain

~ Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer ~

Ludwig von Mises

~ It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home ~

William Ewart Gladstone

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