Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

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

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

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and read more

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

Good government is no substitute for self-government

Good government is no substitute for self-government

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one read more

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

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

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

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for read more

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.