“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” – Thomas B. Reed
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” – P.J. O’Rourke
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” – Tacitus
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” – Barry Goldwater
“Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.” – Lord Acton
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.” – Somerset Maugham
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” – P.J. O’Rourke
“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill
“Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” – Albert Einstein
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his.” – John Locke
From the Rust Belt 