Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter taller richer and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.