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Legitimate Government Quotes

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions. Cal Thomas
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better. Scott Walker
William Henry Harrison quote: "The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of..."
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. William Henry Harrison
I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government. James Madison
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves? in their separate, and individual capacities. Abraham Lincoln
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Thomas Jefferson
Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless the larger interests of the many are concerned. It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved. These are the principals which must be remembered in any consideration of this question. This, I take it, is sound government-not politics. Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved. Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Stuart Mill quote: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with..."
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. John Stuart Mill
The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem sufficiently demolished. ... The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. Thomas Jefferson
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both. Mark Helprin
I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. Katharine Graham
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. Dorothy Denning
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens. Wendell L. Wilkie
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. Rutherford B. Hayes

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