The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn't convince anyone.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.
The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.