U S Government Quotes

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.