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

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

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.

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

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.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

People create jobs, not the government.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.