U S Government Quotes

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

All governments are lying cocksuckers.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

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

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.