"All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer." - William Henry HarrisonTweet
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank HerbertTweet
"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people." - Maynard James KeenanTweet
"We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support." - George WashingtonTweet
"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'" - Paul RyanTweet
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government." - Wendell PhillipsTweet
"Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending." - Bob WoodwardTweet
"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none." - Andrew JacksonTweet
"The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that." - Hillary ClintonTweet
"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place." - Lawrence LessigTweet