Government Quotes

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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