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.
Thomas Jefferson
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
Ralph Nader
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
