Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

We are all the President’s men.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

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.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

How can we help President Obama?

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.