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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
That government is best which governs least.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private ownership, limited government way of life. Many business ventures fail entirely. Who then are the beneficiaries? The masses!
The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don’t want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican… a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest…and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
The Democrats’ agenda isn’t working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.
Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.
We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative – not political clout – determines who succeeds.
I think Donald Trump understands there’s a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.
Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United States with the system of the USSR.
If you’re a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and increased government power so dramatically that he claims the right to eavesdrop on your conversations without a warrant.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Time is the only thing you can’t buy.
I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power – if they examine the logic of State power historically, and more specifically in the United States – they will find that the concept of limited government is not tenable once they adopt some type of libertarian principle.
I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role of power as a corruptive mechanism in leading finally to unlimited government.
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real conservatives believe in clean, limited government and would stand up to anybody who is basically setting up a kleptocracy, nepotism, and crony capitalism. And real conservatives are actually strong for America and not weak for Russia.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.