Affair Quote by H. L. Mencken

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government…

— Jerry Brown

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain…

— Jefferson Davis

Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of government solved…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive…

— Mickey Edwards

“According to the Constitution as ratified, the legislature was to be the most powerful and important branch of government. Jefferson echoed this theme in…

— Brion T. McClanahan

“But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage…

— Calvin Coolidge

“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had almost single-handedly…

— Willard Sterne Randall

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

— Steve Womack

We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less,…

— Margaret Thatcher

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt…

— Matt Salmon