Government Quote by William Butler Yeats

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

— John Marshall

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

— Johann Lamont

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

— Thomas Jefferson

The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for…

— Richard Cecil

I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not…

— Alexander Hamilton

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

— James Cook

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements;…

— James Madison

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

— Anthony Trollope

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his…

— William O. Douglas