The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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.
Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.
And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us v...
I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.
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.
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
