The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.