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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein did not construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford did not revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it is by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

It is opportunity. It is opportunity, not a check from government - it is opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.