| 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. |