Affirming Quote by Charles Colson

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Government cannot be all things to all people.

— Jane D. Hull

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

— William H. Douglas

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

— Edmund Burke

Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.

— Michael Tubbs

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded…

— Steve Wynn

Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks…

— Shane Claiborne

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It…

— Lord Acton