| 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. |