Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. – Ronald Reagan
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. – Confucius
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. – Aristotle
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. – Henry David Thoreau
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. – George Washington
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. – Ron Paul
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. – George Washington
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. – Gerald R. Ford
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. – Robert A. Heinlein
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. – Henry David Thoreau
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. – George Washington
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. – Benito Mussolini
The government is us we are the government, you and I. – Theodore Roosevelt
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. – George Washington
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. – Plato
