Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter taller richer and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
I have no other view than to promote the public good and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
God is even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens too willing to please the requests of everybody thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years and my future even now depends upon it.
In the future my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.
Clearly some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.