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.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

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

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

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

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

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 people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.

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

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.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather they look to their portfolios.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

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

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

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.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.