And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does maybe your belief in God does maybe there's another set of moral codes but I don't think government has a role.

In the rush to become all things to all people the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

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've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

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.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

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.

Government has no other end but the preservation of property.

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 problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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.

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.

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.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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