Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.