Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem
- Ronald Reagan
Free people will set the course of history
- George W. Bush
Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity
- George W. Bush
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
- George W. Bush
I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.
- George W. Bush
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others
- Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth
- Abraham Lincoln
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe
- Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected
- George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible
- George Washington
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals
- George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace
- George Washington
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence
- George Washington
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong
- Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery
- Calvin Coolidge
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it
- Margaret Thatcher
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far
- Theodore Roosevelt
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face
- Thomas Sowell
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric
- Thomas Sowell
It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains
- Patrick Henry
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone
- Ronald Reagan
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty
- Ronald Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave
- Ronald Reagan
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born
- Ronald Reagan
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote
- Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help
- Ronald Reagan
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process
- Ronald Reagan
I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts
- Ronald Reagan
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves
- Walter E. Williams
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights
- Walter E. Williams
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God
- Alan Keyes
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people
- Alan Keyes
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
- Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves
- Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man
- Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves
- Thomas Jefferson
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader
- Samuel Adams
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University
- William F. Buckley
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer
- Ben Franklin
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have
- Barry Goldwater