National Governance Quotes

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

The Manners of Women, are the surest Criterion by which to determine whether a Republican Government is practicable in a Nation or not.

I am persuaded to believe that God had left nations to the liberty of setting up such governments as best pleased themselves, and that magistrates were set up for the good of nations, not nations for the honor and glory of magistrates.

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.

No man is big enough to run this great republic. There has never been one.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

We cannot continue to claim that we are a nation of laws and not of men if our laws and, indeed, even the Constitution of the United States itself, may be summarily breached because of some determination of expediency or because the President says “trust me.”

In a democracy the People are entitled to determine the Ends or general aims of foreign policy.

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.

The Constitution of the United States [is] the result of the collected wisdom of our country.