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.
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.
The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.