U S Government Quotes

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.