Citizens Quote by Bernard Baruch

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

— George Washington

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law…

— Henry Ford

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system,…

— Leslyn Lewis

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

— David Rockefeller

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail in everything.

— Francis T Murphy

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work…

— Anonymous

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper…

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

— Gerrit Smith