If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.
It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.
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.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
