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.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.

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.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

Whatever it is that the government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost high tax big government place our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist big government paradise you long for.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed as every past one has done in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?