Bigs Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

— Thomas Jefferson

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

— Rand Paul

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government…

— Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

— Barry Goldwater

Liberty is not enough.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

— Barry Goldwater

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

— Gerald R. Ford

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to…

— Michael Badnarik

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the history of…

— Ronald Reagan

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its…

— John Quincy Adams