Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a…

Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

— H. L. Mencken

If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his…

— Daniel Webster

Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest,…

— Daniel Webster

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it…

— Anonymous

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all…

— Aristotle

“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.”

— Calvin Coolidge

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

— Anonymous

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

— John Pugsley

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it

— William J. Clinton

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with…

— Ronald Reagan

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

— Grover Cleveland

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

— Amy McGrath

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

— Robert Novak