We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

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.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Good breeding differs if at all from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful nay essential to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.