I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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.
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Financial crises require governments.
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
Every country has the government it deserves.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it’s completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It’s all the participants in the network enforcing.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
