Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

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.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.