U S Government Quotes
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
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.
Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
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.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.