government Quotes

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.