“Here’s what the law does. The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up-ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain’t fitten for a hog. They call that govment!”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 6. Pap as he tries to regain custody of Huck, and so get access to his son’s fortune. Pap blames his poverty and struggling on the government. But really Pap is just demonstrating his greed.