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  • The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

    The English Constitution "The Monarchy" (1867)
  • A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.

  • This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

    Strong   War   Army  
  • Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.

    "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 636". Judicial opinion, 1943.
  • You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

    Robert Ringer (2012). “The Entrepreneur: The Way Back for the U.S. Economy”, p.235, Simon and Schuster
  • In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

    "Netanyahu vows to take on Barak" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2000.
  • Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1865). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.131
  • I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

  • Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

    David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”
  • We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

  • However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

  • The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.

  • The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

  • Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

  • I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

    "Thatcher warns of 'dictatorship'". www.cnn.com. June 1, 2001.
  • We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

    John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229
  • If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  • Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

    Strong   Men   Doubt  
    Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”
  • Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

    Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
  • We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

  • Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

    Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield
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