The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people’s money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.