Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

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.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation not even the most belligerent.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people using their government as an instrument and a tool can do toward building the whole man which will mean a better society and a better world.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Honesty integrity and accountability the values which should be the hallmark of this government have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them that the constitutional charter under which the several branches of government hold their power is derived.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult which is that the size and scope of government and really the size and scope of politics in our lives has grown uncomfortable unwieldy intrusive and inefficient.

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.

In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution which can only end in a distorted bastardized form of illegitimate government.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.