To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
As government expands, liberty contracts.