President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

In the late 1990s some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror namely massive atrocities 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States millions of refugees tens of thousands of people killed hideous repression that's international terror and we can go on and on.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise government will of itself decay.

As I speak to you today government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

The people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.

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!

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.