U S Government Quotes
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.