The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.