The American government is a rule of the people, by the…

“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In general, the…

— Tzvetan Todorov

“vividly revealed the arms industry’s ‘constant tendency towards bribery, and the playing off of one country against another to sell arms’. It also exposed…

— Andrew Feinstein

“Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? To me, it doesn’t matter. It’s…

— Nnedi Okorafor

“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their…

— Tzvetan Todorov

I'm an American. Why would I not go with my government?

— Greg Hardy

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved…

— William J. Clinton

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of…

— Thomas Jefferson

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the country's finances…

— Ron Chernow

“American breweries preexisted American government; some of the breweries’ staunchest supporters were also the leaders of the new nation. In colonial America, the alehouse…

— Marty Nachel

I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be…

— Michael Scheuer

“In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul…

— Walid Shoebat

“So we Europeans are shocked by the blind, uncomprehending hard-heartedness that certain American government policies imply. I am thinking of the terrible tariff walls…

— Knut Hamsun

“Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven…

— Wilford Woodruff