John Stuart Mill Quotes

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

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.

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

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

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

The role of government is to encourage—not discourage.

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Not everything can be solved by government.

I'm not a huge believer that government provides a whole lot of solutions.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.