U S Government Quotes

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.