U S Government Quotes

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.

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.

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

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.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.