Quotes about Government
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
— Helen Keller
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
— Roger Williams
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
— Frank Herbert
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
— William Howard Taft
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
— Roger Williams
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
— Thomas Paine
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
— Thomas Paine
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
— Thomas Paine
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
— Thomas Jefferson
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
— Eric Metaxas
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
— James Madison