Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

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.