U S Government Quotes

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

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

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

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 leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

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.

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...

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.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.