The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.