Politics and Government Quotes

If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion.

That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute.

There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth happen justly.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

There is no conceivable way of making people do things they do not wish to do.

The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes - naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

It has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object.

It has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it.

Nothing, therefore, can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.

It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments.

The law, then, is solely the organization of individual rights that existed before law.

The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force - which attract its motive power.

The efficient parts only employ that power.

The efficient secret of the English constitution is the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers.

The Cabinet is an absolutely secret committee, which can dissolve the assembly which appointed it.

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind.