Quotes about Federal

I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother. This was not unnatural. The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the labour of the Negro.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national constitution.