U S Government Quotes

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

My government career is over.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.