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Limiting government power

Government should never be able to do anything you can’t do. If you can’t steal from your neighbor, you can’t send the government to steal for you.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021Categories government, lawsTags Ron Paul

Freedom from coercion

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 26, 2021Categories demagogues, government, libertyTags Ron Paul

Don’t steal

Don’t steal — the government hates competition!

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021Categories governmentTags Ron Paul

The company you keep

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021Categories governmentTags Ron Paul

The worst failure

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021Categories governmentTags H. L. Mencken

Freedom shrinks as government grows

The more powerful the national government grows, the less free Americans will become.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021Categories government, libertyTags Dennis Prager

Modern government in a nutshell

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 8, 2021February 8, 2021Categories governmentTags Peter Drucker

Checks and restraints

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 4, 2021February 4, 2021Categories governmentTags William O. Douglas

What truly matters

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021Categories governmentTags Donald J. Trump

They are supposed to work for us

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 12, 2021Categories governmentTags William O. Douglas

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