U S Government Quotes

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

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.

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.

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

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

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

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Don't steal - the government hates competition!

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.