U S Government Quotes

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.