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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

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.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men is minds.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there is so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think we are all in this together is a better philosophy than you are on your own.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it is all checks and no balances.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you do not always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I am not sure any country, either the United States or I do not hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

And that is really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We are supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

One of the things the government can not do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.