But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.