Tonight I want to talk to you about what government can do because I believe government must do more. — Bill Clinton, State of the Union, 1993The era of Big Government is over. — Bill Clinton, State of the Union, 1996 Bill Clinton
Quotations as reported in Time, September 2, 1996, page 32

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of government. Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith, speech to House of Representatives, June 27, 1854