The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
It's not tyranny we desire it's a just limited federal government.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Our intentions may be very good but because the intelligence is limited the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake but not necessarily a sin for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Of all that is good sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak He is strong.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
God and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.