If you have

ten thousand regulations

you destroy all respect for the law.

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Reader, suppose you

were an idiot.

And suppose you were

a member of Congress.

But I repeat myself.

MARK TWAIN

The trouble with this country

is that there are too many

politicians who believe,

with a conviction based on

experience, that you can fool

all of the people

all of the time.

FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS

The natural progress of things

is for liberty to yield

and governments to gain ground.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

The legitimate powers

of government

extend to such acts

as are only injurious to others.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

The United States ranks 13th

on the Human Freedom Index.

Twelve other countries are freer

than the United States.

UNITED NATIONS

Outside of the Constitution

we have no legal authority

more than private citizens,

and within it we have

only so much

as that instrument gives us.

This broad principle

limits all our functions

and applies to all subjects.

ANDREW JOHNSON

When we lose

the right to be different,

we lose

the privilege to be free.

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES

Government is not

the solution

to our problem.

Government is

the problem.

RONALD REAGAN
First Inaugural Address
January 20, 1981

If you started a business

when Christ was born

and lost $1 million a day,

it would still take

another 700 years

before you lost $1 trillion.

REPRESENTATIVE PHIL CRANE

No government ever

voluntarily reduces itself in size.

Government programs,

once launched,

never disappear.

Actually, a government bureau

is the nearest thing to eternal life

we'll ever see on this earth!

RONALD REAGAN

 NHTSA?

He uses statistics

as a drunken man

uses lamp-posts

—for support

rather than illumination.

ANDREW LANG

The right

to be let alone

is indeed

the beginning

of all freedom.

JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

DAN BAUM
The Nation
June 29, 1992

Government is like fire.

If it is kept within bounds and

under the control of the people,

it contributes to the welfare of all.

But if it gets out of place,

if it gets too big and out of control,

it destroys the happiness

and even the lives of the people.

HAROLD E. STASSEN

A way of life

that is odd or even erratic

but interferes with no rights

or interests of others

is not to be condemned

because it is different.

CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN E. BURGER

The greatest dangers to liberty

lurk in insidious encroachment

by men of zeal,

well-meaning

but without understanding.

JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS