Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
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