Weak Government Quotes

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

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government.

The Framers (of the Constitution) were not concerned primarily with favoring one type of government over another, but with limiting the power of government, regardless of its source.

The rule that feeble and incompetent governments acquire strength by exercise, especially in war, has been well understood.

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

Lincoln and the Government are imbecile and played out.

I am beginning to have a poor opinion of their firmness. Their Republic, unless they correct its faults, ... will never be more than a feeble body capable of little activity ... I must own that I have little confidence in the energy of the United States.

Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

Sometimes crime is provoked by economic and social conditions, as well as the weak government and the absence of lawful order.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Good government is the preservation of liberty, which in turn requires the absence of arbitrary, discretionary power in the chief magistrate.

Liberty is not wanting in popular (democratic) states; nay, they have rather too much of it, since it degenerates into licentiousness. Hence it is that they are ever tottering and weak. Intestine commotions, or foreign attacks, often throw them into consternation.

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

Government should adhere to the new dictum, don’t just do something, stand there.

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 Congress of America in Congress assembled, being weak in body, low in credit, and poor in estate, but rich, high, and strong, in expectation that by our hellish faithful behaviour on earth, we shall be advanced to the highest esteem and favour of Satan in his kingdom

To strengthen a weak government, we must reduce its power.

We have been obliged to respond to the compulsions of our society.