“Please tell me you’re Republicans.”

Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

America is too great for small dreams.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Freedom is not free.

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.