U S Government Quotes

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

All peoples are fed up with the American government.

Donald Trump has been planting seeds for over a year, warning supporters not to trust the government, the polls or the media, because it's all rigged, he says.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

Let us fashion together a new world order.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.