The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease often referred to as 'progress' doesn't spread.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people of the people and for the people.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

A government of laws and not of men.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

To establish any mode to abolish war however advantageous it might be to Nations would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

All government indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.