You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.