History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.