Erik Prince Quotes

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

To people in virtually any age before our own, the only argument that mattered was between extremely small government and no government at all. Extremely small government meant there was at least some law and order; no government meant that there was not.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

Libertarianism is on its way!

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

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

The Founding Fathers gladly sacrificed government that could provide speedy, effective, cohesive, and internally consistent policies. They opted for one that had a maximum number of veto points and checks and balances and protections against tyranny by particular officials or tyranny by selfish majorities.

The genius of American government consists of the creative tension between conservatives on the one hand and liberals on the other hand..

That government is best which governs least.

Our society today is much more Hamiltonian than Jeffersonian.

The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy... It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

In a Madisonian system, it is often more important how you do something than what you do.

We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government.

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.

I'm a federalist.

Much to Mr. Obama's chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat. The American people have shown quite clearly that they will not simply roll over while this administration seeks to undercut our founding principles in pursuit of its preferred European model of government.