If government were a product selling it would be illegal.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Any government that supports protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

Whatever it is that the government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost high tax big government place our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist big government paradise you long for.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed as every past one has done in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals out of government offices into the media into the streets of countries.