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Government Quotes by Joseph Story
- It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and…
- [I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of…
- The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
- So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
- The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the…
- In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist…
- Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them.…
- How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children…
- In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they…
- It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was…
- The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of…
- The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to…
- A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be…
- One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep…
- A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
- A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida