| The government solution to a problem is worse than the problem. -- Randolph Lucas
The people would be better off to pay the salaries of their elected officials and ask them to stay home and out of our business. - Randolph Lucas
Government employees are the most serious special interest group threatening our country. -- Randolph Lucas
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. -- Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. -- Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. -- Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
Progressivism , Socialism , Communism are only stages of the same disease. -- Randolph Lucas
When Law is applied subjectively it ceases to be Law and becomes Injustice -- Randolph Lucas
When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another. -- Thomas Jefferson (1821)
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. -- Ayn Rand |
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