By a continuing process of inflation government can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

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

When you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

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

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.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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.

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?

Government proposes bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

A President needs political understanding to run the government but he may be elected without it.

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.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

If government were a product selling it would be illegal.

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.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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.

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

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.

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.

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