Government Assumes Quotes
- Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson
- The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin
- I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and… — James Madison