No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

In the long-run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.

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.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.