Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.
He who controls the past controls the future.
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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