“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of par...”

“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and ju...”

“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.”

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”

“Counterfeit money should not be done by anyone, whether it be government or private.”

“All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromis...”

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

“The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt”

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

“In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.”

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”