Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
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 is for the benefit of all the people.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.