U S Government Quotes

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

People want transparency in government.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.