Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion justice counsel and treasure).

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

If government were a product selling it would be illegal.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth no property and vulgar employment.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people and I cannot fear the result.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre it just keeps coming back.

More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best stage is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is is that when we succeed we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

We believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty, and individual liberty requires limited government.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Only government can take perfectly good paper cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler smaller and smarter.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government low taxes reasonable regulations and sound money which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools, they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

There is in fact no law or government at all [in Italy], and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Whatever it is that the government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

In a clean break from the Obama years and frankly from the years before this president we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth or hard limits on the size of government and we choose to limit government.

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

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.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful it does a great deal of harm.

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.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

When you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

We need a government alas because of the nature of humans.

The best minds are not in government. If any were business would steal them away.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals good bad and otherwise.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

We believe in individual initiative personal responsibility opportunity freedom small government the Constitution. These principles these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

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.

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.

As president Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations but he also raised taxes when necessary.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama your agenda is not new. It's not change and it's not hope.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look at some point you cease being a free economy and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

In general the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful for impotence.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them that the constitutional charter under which the several branches of government hold their power is derived.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals out of government offices into the media into the streets of countries.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the protection of which Government was instituted.

I think governments can't do much.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People with their wisdom and unwisdom, we have to say Like People like Government.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution which can only end in a distorted bastardized form of illegitimate government.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately it's the government.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.

We are a forward-looking people and we must have a forward-looking government.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud hanging over the horizon could put almost 44 000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1 national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little the problem is that government spends too much.

In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Things in our country run in spite of government not by aid of it.

In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

As I speak to you today government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s before we had any government. It worked rather well and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people of every background to succeed and prosper. Under this approach the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts because tax cuts give people more power and take away from the role of government.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission, which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society, governments the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

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.

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison ... without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States they are going to own it.

It was settled by the Constitution the laws and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

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.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy high unemployment falling wages rising gas prices the national debt the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

For Forms of Government let fools contest, whatever is best administered is best.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and yes I know how it can help from time- to-time.

Either the Government must have the capacity to educate and reform the people or the people must have the capacity to educate the Government.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

It's not tyranny we desire, it's a just limited federal government.

That government is best which governs least.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace good people don't go into 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.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

Dependency is death to initiative to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen would you.

The universe never did make sense, I suspect it was built on government contract.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The government is us, we are the government you and I.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe, we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

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.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction whether it be in the seasons or in individuals or in governments.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will, as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom limited government and minding our own business overseas.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

The Federal Government should be the last resort not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately by voluntary organizations or by local or state governments.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult which is that the size and scope of government and really the size and scope of politics in our lives has grown uncomfortable unwieldy intrusive and inefficient.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When the people become involved in their government government becomes more accountable and our society is stronger more compassionate and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Today if you invent a better mousetrap the government comes along with a better mouse.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Any government that supports protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

A very populous city can rarely if ever be well governed

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship upward mobility and individual responsibility.

Governments tend not to solve problems only to rearrange them.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference " you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

To establish any mode to abolish war however advantageous it might be to Nations would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

All government of course is against liberty.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

The people are the government administering it by their agents, they are the government the sovereign power.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

In government-directed economies the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

A government of laws and not of men.

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.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax, government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The real goal should be reduced government spending rather than balanced budgets, achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class, except Congress.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

In America the President reigns for four years and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

This day the Government has no authority to reform the people, and the people have no authority the reform the Government.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

When one gets in bed with government one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Revolution n. In politics an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system turning large insurers into de facto public utilities depriving people of choice depriving people of options raising people's prices raising taxes when we need new jobs.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments with emperors kings and ministers but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people of the people and for the people.

Government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house or something like that.

It may be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government or the people would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out that aspect of TARP that's what happened.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives our health care President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The essence of Government is power, and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.