48 result(s) for Obey The Government Quotes.
"The best way to make every one poor is to insist on perfect equality, seeing that naturally some men are stronger, better, more intelligent, and more virtuous than others."
"The object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled."
"What is the government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master."
"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, so well, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories."
"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
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"The art of governing consists almost solely in the discreet employment of hypocrisy."
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt."
"One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."
"A law is valuable, not because it is law, but because there is right in it."
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
"Where laws end, tyranny begins."
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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"Justice is to be obeyed though the heavens fall."
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
"The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
"The art of governing consists simply of being honest, of exercising common sense, of holding justice exact and impartial."
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
"The ultimate authority resides in the people."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
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"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
"Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor."
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"
"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."
"We are not to simply obey the law, but to disobey the laws that are unjust."
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
"We must obey the law, but there must be more than law. That is the spirit of the law."
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
