Federal Quotes

1071 Federal quotes by 648 unique authors

Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do… — Walter E. Williams
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a… — Walter E. Williams
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector. — Donald T. Regan
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period… — Charles Evans Hughes
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass
Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own faith as the… — George W. Bush
First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules.… — George W. Bush
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government… — Strom Thurmond
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of… — Strom Thurmond
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make… — Clint Eastwood
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round,… — Dianne Feinstein
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… — James Madison
"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into… — John Hickenlooper
...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar… — Seanbaby
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage… — Anthony Kennedy
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in… — Hugo Black
There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency.… — Frank Rich

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