The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights not to grant them.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed as every past one has done in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

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.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.