Tom G. Palmer Quotes

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.

We need government to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

What the government gives it must first take away.

Congress may spend money in aid of the "general welfare.

While the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government, its functions do not include support of the people.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

If you are a Social Democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, taxation is the finest expression for what politics really is.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

That’s the function of government—to do for people what they cannot do for themselves.

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.