Limited Intervention Quotes

I think that less presidential interference the better.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence of his eagerness to end America's military role in that country's civil war.

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

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

Everybody wants the government to be smaller and everyone wants the government to leave them alone.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

Government should steer, not row.

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.

That government is best which governs least.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.

The country is carried comfortably down the river, and the function of Government is to occasionally put out an oar to prevent running into the bank.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I want a government that does nothing.

The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.