Quotes on Limiting Government

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I hope we once again have 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.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.