Quotes about Government

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

All civilisation begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy. This law of liberty succeeding unity is written in architecture.

In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.

It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle against, the people. Beggars