U S Government Quotes

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

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.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.