You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.