Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God. Inflation is a policy.
The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.