Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
The people want government that works for them at every level.
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
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