“There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.”
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“Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.”
“The essence of good government is trust.”
“But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.”
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
“As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.”
“But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.”
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”
“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.”
“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.”
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.”
“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
“It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.”
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”