Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
Government stimulates the democrat party.
Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
I am the government.
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that’s what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we’re dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.
Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
No matter where you stand politically – even if you’re unsure of what your political ideology is – it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
