Quotes about Government

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

One with the law is a majority.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.