Government Weakness Quotes

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Facts and events … have been too strong for the Government.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of government.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government.

Republics are in the beginning and for a time industrious, but they finally destroy themselves because they are badly constituted. I dread the consolidation of the States and hope for a good national Government from the present Division of the States with a feeble Executive.

Your government means to be paternal—it is only weak…. Love France, love my glory—that is the only manner in which a King of Holland can do service.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.

His colleagues [cannot] compare with him in that acuteness and energy of mind with which he devotes himself to so many topics injurious to the strength and welfare of the state.

Lincoln and the Government are imbecile and played out.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.

It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme