Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When the people become involved in their government government becomes more accountable and our society is stronger more compassionate and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Today if you invent a better mousetrap the government comes along with a better mouse.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Any government that supports protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

A very populous city can rarely if ever be well governed

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship upward mobility and individual responsibility.

Governments tend not to solve problems only to rearrange them.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference " you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

To establish any mode to abolish war however advantageous it might be to Nations would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

All government of course is against liberty.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes bigger government and less trade with other nations.

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.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

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

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

In government-directed economies the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

A government of laws and not of men.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax, government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The real goal should be reduced government spending rather than balanced budgets, achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class, except Congress.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

In America the President reigns for four years and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

This day the Government has no authority to reform the people, and the people have no authority the reform the Government.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

When one gets in bed with government one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Revolution n. In politics an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system turning large insurers into de facto public utilities depriving people of choice depriving people of options raising people's prices raising taxes when we need new jobs.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments with emperors kings and ministers but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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.

Government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house or something like that.

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.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government or the people would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out that aspect of TARP that's what happened.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives our health care President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal 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.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The essence of Government is power, and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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 worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

People do not make wars, governments do.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this Government `I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.'

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob, all authority is equally bad.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

A President needs political understanding to run the government but he may be elected without it.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people using their government as an instrument and a tool can do toward building the whole man which will mean a better society and a better world.

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.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient more transparent and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking you would have no government.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children, those who are in the twilight of life the elderly, and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

There's no question in my mind the number one problem of mankind is the spread of nuclear knowledge ... It should be at the top of the list for our government.

Back in 2008 candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president one term $5 trillion in new debt.