The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.