U S Government Quotes
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 certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
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.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?
The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.
Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.
The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.
The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.