“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.” Barry Goldwater, (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona). Source Reference Barry Goldwater Quote

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.” Elie Wiesel, (1928-) Author, Nobel Peace Prize 1986. Source Reference Elie Wiesel Quote

“He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.” Salvador de Madariaga,…

“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. That government is best which governs least.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson…

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God.’ The preservation of [our] government…

“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.” Paul Johnson, (1928-) English journalist, popular historian, speechwriter, and author….

“The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark…

“The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather…

“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man’s relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.” Clarence Manion, (1896-1979) American conservative…

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source Reference Benjamin Franklin Quote

“It was not the tycoons of big business, it was not the working classes, it was the intellectuals who reversed the trend toward political freedom and revived the doctrines of the absolute State, of totalitarian government rule, of the government’s…

“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” Justice William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Public Utilities Commission v Pollack, 1952. Source Reference Famous Justice William O. Douglas Quote