government Quotes

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will... ...

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away.... ...

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.