"Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy."

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

"In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth.

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."

"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."

"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."