Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither.  -  Benjamin Franklin

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.  --  Thomas Jefferson

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.  - Abraham Lincoln 

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.  -  Benjamin Franklin

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in sesson.  -  Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.  -  Winston Churchill

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower

History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, a 

debt he proposes to pay off with your money.  -  Barry Goldwater 

The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed. When the British forgot that they got a revolution. And, as a result, we Americans got a Constitution; a Constitution that, as those who wrote it were determined, would keep men free. If we give up part of that Constitution we give up part of our freedom and increase the chance that we will lose it all. I am not ready to take that risk. I believe that the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive.  -  Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.  - Ronald Reagan

Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July.  Democrats believe every day is April 15th.  - Ronald Reagan 

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.  - Ronald Reagan

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. - Ronald Reagan

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. -  Ronald Reagan

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.  -  Ronald Reagan

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.  -  George Bernard Shaw

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  -  Dr Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005

Somehow I had this idea when I was growing up that if you wanted something bad enough, you would work hard until you got it. That was then. This is now. Now you vote for it. That’s change you can believe in.  - Neal Boortz

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.  –  Norman Thomas, in a 1994 speech as Presidential Candidate

Private Land Ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice.  If unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes.  -  U.N. Conference on Human Settlements