The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people

Quote by Grover Clevelad

Topics: Government Quotes

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at...

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been...

How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been...

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society...

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a...

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a...

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government,...

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government,...

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those...

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those...

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up...

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up...

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have...

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have...

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is...

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is...