Top 1200 Weak Government Quotes & Sayings

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest.

I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[...] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[...] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

Easy was for people too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done. And I wasn’t weak. Not anymore.

The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

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

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

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.

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

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.

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.

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

Keep everything simple, don't try anything crazy and all your strikes must be hard! NOTHING WEAK, no jabs or weak attacks.

A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

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

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

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 big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.

Trump is not going to win the presidency because he himself is a weak, weak candidate.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

The Indian government is weak. The Prime Minister is weak and ineffective.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.