If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
History in general only informs us of what bad government is.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
The people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little the problem is that government spends too much.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.