U S Government Quotes

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

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

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

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 Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

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

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

The essence of good government is trust.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

That government is best which governs least.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.