U S Government Quotes

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

Always love your country - but never trust your government!

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.