Government

"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government."

"But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest."

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

"The dead should not rule the living."

"The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value."

"The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better."

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government."

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."

"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government."