The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.