We need to rediscover government as an enabler, not a solution provider; as a platform for our own innovation, a lever for our own work, not as the deus ex machina that we've paid to do for us what we could be doing for ourselves.

-Tim O'Reilly

Peoples and governments are correlated and complementary: a fatuous government would be an anomaly among the righteous people, just as a corrupt people cannot exist under just rulers and wise laws.
- Jose Rizal

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington