Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

We believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.

The people's government made for the people made by the people and answerable to the people.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the protection of which Government was instituted.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic accountable and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Well first of all I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is they believe that for years and years and years the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

When there is a lack of honor in government the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers people that are gainfully employed making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

When man lives under government he is fallen his worth is gone and his nature tarnished.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems and if only we had no government we'd have no problems. I can tell you that contradicts evidence history and common sense.