This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.

But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

The essence of good government is trust.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

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

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.