U S Government Quotes

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.