Practical Quotations » Government

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:42 +0000

Honesty in States [archaic, governments], as well as in individuals, will ever be found the soundest policy.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:08:02 +0000

That the Government [which the US Founder's created], though not actually perfect, is one of the best in the world, I have little doubt.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:05:51 +0000

Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:02:39 +0000

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.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:41:06 +0000

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Charles Carroll

Charles Carroll — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:06:18 +0000

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion….are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:16:06 +0000

[T]he government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:14:08 +0000

While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:11:10 +0000

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:14:37 +0000

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:28:16 +0000

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:27:00 +0000

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.