Administration Quote by Joseph Story

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

The government, which is the supreme authority in states, must be in the hands of one, or of a few, or of the many.…

— Aristotle (384â323 BC

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the…

— Pope Leo XIII

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

— William Scranton

Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other…

— Dale Jamieson

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

— Aristotle

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression…

— Benjamin Tucker

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

— Alexander Hamilton

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story