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

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

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.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

I don’t follow politics much.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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

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

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.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

The FBI should not be a political body.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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

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

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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?‘

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.