U S Government Quotes
The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
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.
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.
