I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

In time of war the laws are silent.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

That government is best which governs least.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

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.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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).

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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

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.

It sure is hell to be president.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.