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“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.”

Said Government Limits Democrat Central Government

Author:Mia Love

“This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”

Ideas Government Fighting Individual Freedom Limits Individuality Eden Valuable Things East Of Eden Travels With Charley This I Believe Mind Freedom

Book:The Portable Steinbeck

Source: The Portable Steinbeck

“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.”

Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue

“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.”

Men Hands Government Decision He Man Limits Gun Decision Making Utopian Central Government

Author:Murray Rothbard

“No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.”

People Knows Government Politics Power Limits Endurance

Book:An Essay on the Trial by Jury

Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury

“That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.”

People Government Ought Limits Independent Uniforms Virginia

Author:George Mason

“Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.”

Knows Mind Doe Use Government Force Accepting Know How Limits Rate Appeals Spontaneous Adaptation Looking Forward Adjustment Apprehension Accepting Change

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.”

Ifs Hands Government Purpose Individual Rights Protect Limits Bills Amendments Defeated Strict Bill Of Rights Locality 14th Amendment

Author:Ilana Mercer

“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”

Source: Journal of the convention of the state of Mississippi, and the act calling the same: with the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.”

People Reality Government Fantasy Limits Praise Begging Supplies Clamor

Book:Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment

Source: Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment

“People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.”

“When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.”

Ifs Way Problem Government Running Social Deals Support Security Limits Debt Spending Pilots Federal Government Social Security Medicare Medicaid Medicare And Medicaid

Author:Allen West