Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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

I don’t write policy for my government.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We are all the President’s men.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.