Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

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.