If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:14

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
- Ayn Rand

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
- Ronald Reagan

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty teeth.
- George Washington

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
- Russel Kirk

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled through the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Harry S. Truman

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain; and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
- Peggy Noonan

Speeches are not magic, and there is no great speech withough great policy.
- Peggy Noonan

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

I always cheer immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack me personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
- Margaret Thatcher

This above all: to think thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- From Hamlet, William Shakespeare

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
- Richard Nixon

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
- P.J. O'Rourke

... Mississippi cannot afford four more years a Pappy O'Daniel-four more years of cronyism, nepotism, rascalism and service to the innarests! The choice: Pappy O'Daniel, slave a the innarests; Homer Stokes, servant a the little man!
- Govenor Candidate Homer Stokes

So now, without further ado, and by way of endorsing' my candidacy, the Soggy Bottom Boys is gonna lead us all in a chorus of 'You Are My Sunshine'- Ain't ya Boys?
- Mississippi Govenor Pappy O'Daniel, in the movie Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

...And some things that should not have been forgotten...were lost.
- The fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein on the drift of civilizations toward tyranny