Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
William Weld
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.