Politics Quote by Calvin Coolidge

“The people shouldn't lean on their government for support. The people should hold themselves up and keep the government in check.”

— K. Weikel

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Government does not create wealth; it redistributes it. Whatever it gives you it must first take from someone else.”

— Robert W. McGee

“The national government belongs to the whole American people,”

— Charles A. Beard

“That government is best that governs not at all.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people…

— Keith Ellison

“Once more, we will have a government of, by and for the people.”

— David Horowitz

“The business of the government is the business of the people.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.”

— George will

“We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

“But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.”

— Francis Fukuyama