Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Socialism means slavery.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
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.
I read the newspaper.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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