The things I never say never get me into trouble.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves