Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The people are the government administering it by their agents they are the government the sovereign power.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

If men were angels no government would be necessary.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

The government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

For most Americans Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace good people don't go into government.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy high unemployment falling wages rising gas prices the national debt the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.