“Any government which can promise you everything you want can also take away everything you have.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“What kind of a private club are these people running? Whose government is it, anyway ? I used to think it belonged to the people.”— Barry Goldwater, nytimes.com
“You want something for nothing ? The Federal Government will give it to you. You want to avoid responsibility for bringing up your children and educating them? The Federal Government will take over. You want to duck the job of facing your local problems and solving them? The Federal Government will…”— Barry Goldwater, nytimes.com
“Never forget, there was only one freedom—only one freedom—on which this nation was founded. That was freedom from government—from too much, oppressive government.”— Barry Goldwater, nytimes.com
“It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get…”— Barry Goldwater, nytimes.com
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the constitution, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.”— Millard Fillmore, en.wikiquote.org
“The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.”— Millard Fillmore, books.google.com
“Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“In the emotion of the moment, people often say and do reckless things. For the individual, that can have deep ramifications. But when it is a single individual acting unreasonably in the throws of emotion in the face of sorrow, then the consequences are borne by only that person and his family. But…”— Ron Paul, ronpaulquotes.com
“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”— Ron Paul, chron.com
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed them to keep them from doing something. They imprisoned all those POW's, of course, not for treason to the motherland, because it was absolutely clear ev…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Shakespeare was never an anarchist; and when he studies the problem of power, he does not suggest that it can be solved by abolition. His solution is an aristocracy of the spirit; his qualifications for rulership are self-realisation, forgiveness and love; and his ideal is a philosopher, or perhaps…”— John Vyvyan, amazon.com
“There is a growing global antiestablishment revolt against the permanent political class at home, and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.”— Steve Bannon, sfchronicle.com
“Whenever politicians on both sides inch towards peace, something nasty seems to happen”— The Economist, twitter.com