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 believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately it's the government.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

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

The real goal should be reduced government spending rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution which can only end in a distorted bastardized form of illegitimate government.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

The government is us we are the government you and I.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

It may be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government owes not only a proportion of his property but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.

When any government or any church for that matter undertakes to say to its subjects This you may not read this you must not see this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

Mankind when left to themselves are unfit for their own government.

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.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues it has three choices: It can raise taxes print money or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians all three options are bad for average Americans.

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

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.