Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.
I'm going to cut regulations.
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.
If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
I'm not for laws. We need a minimum of laws.
The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus?
If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.
People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.
The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs.
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.
Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em the hell alone.
