U S Government Quotes
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.
A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.
I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).
The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.