“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu
“Mike Baxter: These kids are into big government. No surprise. Teenagers are used to spending other people's money. Ed Alzate: What do kids that age know? They're just parroting the stuff they learned at home, just like Eve probably does with you. Mike Baxter: No, no, no, no. Eve's different. She's a…”— Kevin Hench, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com
“There are many who have lost faith in this early American ideal and believe in a form of socialistic, totalitarian rule, a sort of big brother deity to run our lives for us. They no longer believe that free men can successfully manage their own affairs. Their thesis is that a handful of men, centere…”— Douglas Macarthur, amazon.com
“All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about ‘creeping socialism.’ I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no b…”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Co…”— Ron Paul, en.wikiquote.org
“In the American political lexicon, ‘change’ always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.”— Ron Paul, ronpaul.com