As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.