U S Government Quotes

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

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

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.

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.

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

The era of big government is over.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

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

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

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.

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.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

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.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I dream of a Digital India where government is open, and governance is transparent.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.