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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. — A.E. Samaan

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. — Calvin Coolidge

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms. — Christine Pelosi

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig Von Mises

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. — Sam Ervin

The problem for the King is just how strict
The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
And discipline should be in school and state ... — Robert Frost

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned. — Henry David Thoreau

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. — Penn Jillette

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives. — A.E. Samaan

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. — Thomas Clarkson

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other. — A.E. Samaan

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. — Thomas Jefferson

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. — Ronald Reagan

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results. — A.E. Samaan

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. — Rand Paul

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost. — A.E. Samaan

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him. — Charles Fourier

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. — P. J. O'Rourke

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. — A.E. Samaan

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. — Stefan Molyneux

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. — Russell Kirk

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. — Edward Abbey

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. — Kakha Bendukidze

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. — Thomas Jefferson

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. — Robert Morrison MacIver

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that. — John O. Brennan

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) — Thomas Jefferson

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. — Dennis Prager

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. — George Mason

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you. — A.E. Samaan

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want. — Ludwig Von Mises

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion. — Frederic Bastiat