Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.

Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.