I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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.

Today if you invent a better mousetrap the government comes along with a better mouse.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter taller richer and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane intolerable.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children those who are in the twilight of life the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

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

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

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.