John Adams on Government

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

–John Adams

Ronald Reagan on Government

“Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

–Ronald Reagan