Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

I've always been about less government.

Have the government get out of the way.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

Libertarianism is on its way!

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

That government is best which governs least.

Attention shouldn't be on finding ways to build a better government; we should be looking at how to get government out of our lives.

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.