U S Government Quotes

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.