Federal government Quote by Ronald Reagan

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

— Ronald Reagan

“We the people are the United States of America. Not the military, not Washington, DC, not the president, not the Congress. They all work…

— Mike Foster

“The United States is no longer a nation that has a government. It is now a government that has a nation.”

— David Ellsworth

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler

“But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.”

— Francis Fukuyama

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant

“Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.”

— Charles W. Carey Jr

“we now have a Leviathan state, far from the limited government the Founders envisioned.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.”

— Isaac Asimov

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have…

— Anna Eshoo

“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“A State for one man is no State at all.”

— Sophocles