It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
People are always saying: ‘They’ll take care of it. The government will. Don’t worry, they will’. They who? It starts with us. It’s us. Or else it’ll never be done.
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
Don’t steal – the government hates competition!
We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
I’ll be like Scarlett O’Hara-I’ll think about it tomorrow.
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
It’s hard, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.