A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
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.
Abraham Lincoln
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson Mandela
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
