Government is by its very nature a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration specifically is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

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.

We need a government alas because of the nature of humans.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God not from government.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

Slave to no sect who takes no private road But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in that he is to be loved and called upon and to be heard in all things.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and all was light!