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My brother Bob Does not want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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.

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.

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.

I do not make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it is surest support.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they do not like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, do not expect freedom to survive very long.

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.

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.

I do 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.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.