One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children those who are in the twilight of life the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

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.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.