Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.
It's convenient for the opposition to focus on perceptions, their argument is simple: the government has done a bad job.
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
Hillary clinton has been in government long enough to understand that would be standard procedure.
The heavy lifting has to be done by the individual and not government, government does not put enough pressure on people.