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Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

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.

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.

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.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner.