As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
