Government Resilience Quotes

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

In justly balancing the powers of the Federal and State authorities difficulties nearly insurmountable arose at the outset and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable. Amid these it was scarcely believed possible that a scheme of government so complex in construction could remain uninjured. From time to time embarrassments have certainly occurred; but how just is the confidence of future safety imparted by the knowledge that each in succession has been happily removed! Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.

The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.