When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have

It may be bad for you, but government has no role in dictating our lives. People should be free to imprison themselves.

America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government — an iron curtain of propaganda.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

Governments are too stupid to understand that too much red tape does not bind a nation together—it tears it apart.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.