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

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

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

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil