The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
The people want government that works for them at every level.
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 the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.