The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

We are all the President’s men.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

How can a president not be an actor?

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.