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.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.
Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.
Government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.
But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.
As a governor I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
The essence of good government is trust.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather they look to their portfolios.
If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.