Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather they look to their portfolios.

If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The people are the government administering it by their agents they are the government the sovereign power.