A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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