U S Government Quotes

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

The safety of the State is the highest law.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.