U S Government Quotes

Public influence is the real government of the world.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

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.

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

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

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

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

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

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

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.

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.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

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.

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.

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.