Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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

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

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Democracy passes into despotism.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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

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

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

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

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

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

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.