My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. – Thomas Jefferson
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
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. – Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain
Man is not free unless government is limited. – Ronald Reagan
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. – Ronald Reagan
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln
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
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. – Albert Einstein
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. – Ronald Reagan
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. – Abraham Lincoln
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. – Abraham Lincoln
Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson
