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Quotes
True Liberalism is found not in striving to spread bureaucracy
Civilization declines in relation to the increase in Bureaucracy.
Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern
us?
The ... most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government
is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O'Rourke
In all that people can do for themselves, the government ought not to
interfere.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need
for its own existence.
Government should only do for you what you can't do for yourself.
Government is not the solution to our problems, Government is the
problem.
While it is true that a lack of law gives way to anarchy, it is
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many
parasites
Man is not free unless government is limited ... as government expands,
liberty contracts.
If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government
big enough to take from you everything you have.
When a government becomes powerful, it is destructive, extravagant and
violent; it is an usurper which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives
honorable men of their substance for votes with which to perpetuate
itself.
When government takes responsibility for people, then people no longer
Republicans have never mastered the knack, as Democrats seem to have,
of winking
You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet
Clinton is most comfortable when thinking about little things - school
uniforms, the minimum wage and, above all, himself.
The Democratic party is like a man riding backward in a carriage. It
If liberals can't beat you, if they're losing on the issues, they do one
of two things. They either call you a bigot or a racist. Or they sue
you.
Democrats believe kids shouldn't pray in school, especially not during
moments of silence because silence can lead to thinking and thinking causes
people to become Republicans.
A man who is made a prince by the favor of the people must work to retain
their friendship; and this is easy for him because the people ask only not
to be oppressed.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
One man with courage is a majority.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public
property.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's
consent.
There's nothing in the middle of the road but dead armadillos and some
yellow lines.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be
[N]o arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable
as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty
or give me death!
No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason
for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort
to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As long as they keep
their guns in their hands, what's happened here will never happen
there.
Freedom is not something to be secured in any one moment in time. We must
struggle to preserve it every day. And freedom is never more than one generation
away from extiction.
America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best
ally.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so,
too.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all
subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat
us.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against
The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the
wolves.
For those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never
know.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no
such thing as publick liberty without freedom of speech.
[T]here are no limits to growth and human progress when men
What I'd really like to do is go down in history as the President who
made
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen,
this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since
descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their
memory. . .
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
We could adopt a better approach to crime control by showing criminals
the same kind of mercy that they show their victims.
Once science has answered all that it can, only then can we
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's just the
opposite.
Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the
others.
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to
society.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that
he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the
principles
If our founding fathers were alive today they'd roll over in their
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