Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

I've always been about less government.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.