Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
That government is best which governs least.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.