“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
“The
principle of spending money to be paid by future generations, under the
name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
“I
predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
taking care of them.”
“A
wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from
the mouth of labor any bread it has earned - this is the sum of good
government.” “
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that is will not be needed until they try to take it away.”
“To
take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of
his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or
whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to
violate arbitrarily the first principle of association–the guarantee to
every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by
it.”
“Most bad government has grown out of too much government.”
“Delay is preferable to error.”
All quotes by the above.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”