U S Government Quotes

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

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

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

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

All government is an ugly necessity.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.