A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.