Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say Like People like Government.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people of the people and for the people.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.