If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one …
Foundation of fear
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
Deficit spending
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Residues of centralized bureaucracy
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
Destroying capitalism
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.
Dependence
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
How to run Rome
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Idiotic members of Congress
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
Newspapers
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Useless men
In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress.