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.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

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.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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.