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.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues it has three choices: It can raise taxes print money or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians all three options are bad for average Americans.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.