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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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

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.

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.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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

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.

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.