Billy Graham Quotes

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

My responsibilities as the governor are more than my neighbor’s and my family.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

President means chief servant

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.