Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.
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.
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue.
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
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