U S Government Quotes

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

My government will respect the will of the people.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.