U S Government Quotes

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

The era of big government is over.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.