“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.”
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“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
“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.”
“The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.”
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.”
“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”
“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
“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.”
“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
“There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.”