Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing…

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

— David Mitchell

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them…

— Thomas Jefferson

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our…

— Thomas Jefferson

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it…

— Ludwig von Mises

POTUS already got tax increases. Now he wants more tax increases to fund more bloated government spending. Not going to happen.

— Anonymous

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

— Chris Christie

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea…

— Marco Rubio

Various economists and experts had suggested increasing government spending to fight COVID-19, to help the poor survive. On the other hand, businesses were helped…

— Anurag Thakur

I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of…

— Sanjaya Baru

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

— Van Jones