U S Government Quotes

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.