Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it’s by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.