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.
We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
