Quotes of famous American's

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Benjamin Franklin
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

George Washington
Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master

Thomas Jefferson
He who governs least, governs best.

Thomas Jefferson
 A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson

Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, & a very unexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.

 

James Madison

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.

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

Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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

Ronald Reagan
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.