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.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.

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.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

Mankind when left to themselves are unfit for their own government.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

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.