If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
– Judge Roy Moore
Government | Liberty
Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
– Judge Roy Moore
God | Government
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
– George Washington
Government | God | The Bible
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.
– George Washington
Government | God | Providence
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
– Ronald Reagan
Government | Freedom
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side.
– Ronald Reagan
God | Government | America
The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures, must be practiced.
– Assorted Authors
Government | Freedom | Righteousness
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
– Adrian Rogers
Government | Laziness
Someday, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
– George Washington
Government | America
There is a natural and necessary progression, from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny; and arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
– George Washington
Government
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
– John Quincy Adams
Government
The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
– George Washington
Government | Power
Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.
– John Quincy Adams
Government
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
– G.K. Chesterton
Finances | Government
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
– Charles Finney
Government | Morality
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, under no form of government are laws better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
– George Washington
Government | Happiness | Liberty
Everywhere we turn, we seem to hear people clamoring for government to give them more and more. They expect government to supply their every need and meet their every demand.
– Chuck Baldwin
Government
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
– George Washington
Government | Patriotism
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true. But in governments of a popular character, and purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent it bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
– George Washington
Government | Politics | Liberty
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.
– Charles Finney
Government | Morality
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government.
– Chuck Colson
Government
I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.
– Mike Huckabee
Government
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
– Assorted Authors
Government
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
– George Washington
Government
Our freedom is tied to our individual souls, a gift from God, not from government.
– Mike Huckabee
Government | Freedom
The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
– Hosea Ballou
Government
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
– George Washington
Government
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
– George Washington
Government
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
– Charles Hodge
Church | Government
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
– Shelton Smith
Government
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
– George Washington
Government
I would support and be willing to lead a Human Life Amendment to the constitution.
– Mike Huckabee
Life | Government
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
– George Washington
Government | Feelings
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.
– George Washington
Government | Freedom
We can exert power for good, therefore, only if we are prepared to drum it into our heads that the church of Christ can never exert influence on civil society directly, only indirectly.
– Abraham Kuyper
Examples | Government
We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic.
– Assorted Authors
God | Government
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our Creator.
– Mike Huckabee
Government | God
Today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
– Judge Roy Moore
Government | History
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Government
They that govern most make least noise. In rowing a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, puff, and sweat; but he that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.
– John Selden
Government | Work
Government is founded on property.
– Daniel Webster
Government
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
– John Quincy Adams
Government
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.
– John Quincy Adams
Government | Providence | America
If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.
– William Penn
Government
Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord’s name by him, offend God.
– John Knox
Government | Obedience
No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency.
– George Washington
Government | God
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
– John Quincy Adams
Government | America | Providence
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
– John Selden
Government
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness | Government | Liberty
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.
– George Washington
Government | Virtue | Happiness
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama’s historic achievement to become his party’s nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
– Mike Huckabee
Government | America
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Government
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
– C.S. Lewis
Government | Health | Doctrine
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
– G.K. Chesterton
Government | War
‘Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world – as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
– George Washington
Government
Why may we not believe that the God who brings his purposes to fruition in his providential government of the world, without violence to second causes or to the intelligent free agency of his creatures, so superintends the mental processes of his chosen instruments for making known his will, as to secure that they shall speak his words in speaking their own?
– B.B. Warfield
Government | The Holy Spirit
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
– George Washington
Government | Liberty
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
– Charles Finney
Government
As a result of this total breakdown of basic morality in virtually every distinguished element within the American framework, constitutional governance is also virtually nonexistent. Adams was right: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral . . . people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– Chuck Baldwin
America | Government | Morality
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
– George Washington
Government
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
– George Washington
Government | Liberty
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
– George Washington
Government | Justice
We need to get past the paperwork and to the people.
– Mike Huckabee
Government
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
– Assorted Authors
God | Government | Liberty
Centralized governments may care for you from cradle to grave, but they also control you. Most Americans don’t want MORE government — they want a lot less.
– Mike Huckabee
Government | America
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
– George Washington
Government
Law is king of all.
– Henry Alford
Government
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
– G.K. Chesterton
Politics | Government
It is not birth only, nor propinquity of blood, that makes a king lawfully to reign above a people professing Christ Jesus and his eternal verity; but in his election must the ordinance, which God has established in the election of inferior judges, be observed.
– John Knox
Government
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead top political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars?
– George Washington
Government | Morality | Patriotism
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
– George Washington
Government
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
– George Washington
Government
Government is not mere advice; it is authority, with power to enforce its laws.
– George Washington
Government | Authority
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
– George Washington
Politics | Government
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
– George Washington
Government
It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but much juggling; for the world cannot be governed without it.
– John Selden
Government
We can exert power for good, therefore, only if we are prepared to drum it into our heads that the church of Christ can never exert influence on civil society directly, only indirectly.
– Abraham Kuyper
Examples | Government
It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratic governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens, they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are too slow.
– George Washington
Government
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
– George Herbert
Government
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.
– Charles Finney
Government | Morality
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
– George Washington
Government | Jealousy | Liberty
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
– Thomas Aquinas
Government | Community
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force.
– George Washington
Government
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
– George Washington
Government
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.
– George Washington
Government