All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. Use this quote
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. Use this quote
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. Use this quote
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Use this quote
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. Use this quote
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. Use this quote
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios. Use this quote
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. Use this quote
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. Use this quote
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. Use this quote
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. Use this quote
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed. Use this quote
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Use this quote
And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt. Use this quote
We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. Use this quote
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Use this quote
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. Use this quote
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. Use this quote
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. Use this quote
Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government. Use this quote
