Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea the belief that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

Thankfully due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government by taking them all over the United States and giving them a correct idea of the customs life etc. of the pale faces so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

Women ought to have representatives instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Well I thought the deal was when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it it's the truth. It is the truth.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are one Security to possessors two facility to acquirers and three hope to all.

When the good lord calls you home the government ought not come get your home.

The thought about Republicans is we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Secrecy being an instrument of conspiracy ought never to be the system of a regular government.

In my view the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise government will of itself decay.

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

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.

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.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

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.

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.