The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Source: John Adams

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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.

Source: Thomas Jefferson

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[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

Source: Thomas Jefferson

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When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.

Source: Thomas Jefferson

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Now I’m old enough to remember when the only experience you ever seemed to have with the Federal Government was that now and then you went down to the post office and bought a stamp. They were two cents each. For twice a day delivery. Now they are fifteen cents for once a day delivery to the wrong address. My friend Dewey Bartlett, the Senator from Oklahoma, says that the last two cents on the price is for storage. And he suggested that we could improve the postal service if we would start paying the postal employees by mail. And yet how much are we to blame? Beginning with the great traumatic experience of the depression, panic in the thirties, we ourselves have fallen into the habit of turning to the government more and more for answers the government has neither the ability nor the right to give. But government delights in trying to provide those answers because government, just any government, as an institution tends to grow.

Source: Ronald Reagan
1978 Automotive Age Western Dealers Conference

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We’re governed more and more by a giant bureaucracy, a permanent body of public employees that cannot be removed from office by our votes, and which I tell you truly is determining policy in this nation to a far greater extent than those we send to the marble halls of government as our elected representatives. Today government says it is going to do something about inflation and they pretend that it’s something like the plague or a draught that it just came on use out of the atmosphere no one knows quite how it happened. The truth of the matter is the answer is very simple, inflation comes when government spends more than government takes in and it will go away when government stops doing that.

Source: Ronald Reagan
1978 Automotive Age Western Dealers Conference

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There are 218 million Americans according to the census bureau. Today we’ve passed the half way mark. More than 124 million Americans are dependent on tax dollars for all or the major part of their daily living. There is a lack of understanding by a great many people of what has thrown this great free market system of ours out of sync. Political demagogues have created a political and economic mythology which is widely believed by otherwise well informed people. This has resulted in an intolerable interference in the marketplace by a government that is urged on by spokesman for a variety of causes, some worthy in themselves, but questionable as to whether they are a proper concern of government. Profit has become a dirty word, blamed for most of our social ills. Free enterprise is becoming far less free in the name of something called consumerism. Property rights are being eroded and even eliminated in the name of environmental protection. It is time for all of us to raise a collective voice reminding that profit, property rights and freedom are inseparable, and you can’t have the third unless you continue to be entitled to the first two.

Source: Ronald Reagan
1978 Automotive Age Western Dealers Conference

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We’re so used to talking billions, does anyone know how much a billion really is? A billion minutes ago, Christ was walking on this earth. A billion hours ago our ancestors lived in caves and it is questionable as to whether they discovered the use of fire or not. If you gentlemen would send your wives out on a shopping spree and give each one of them a billion dollars, but tell them only to spend a thousand dollars a day, they wouldn’t be home for three thousand years. But a billion dollars in Washington was just nineteen hours ago. And they will spend another billion in the next nineteen hours and so on around the clock until the new budget is adopted and then it’s going to go up to about $1.4 billion a day.

Source: Ronald Reagan
1978 Automotive Age Western Dealers Conference

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Freedom is not passed on to our children genetically in the bloodstream; it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I will teach our children how to protect and guard freedom. Preserve it or freedom will disappear in that one generation. Already I fear that too many of us, particularly in business and industry, have switched rather than fight. Have the great corporations abdicated their responsibility to preserve the free marketplace possibly out of a reluctance to rock the boat, or more likely, a fear of retaliation? And I can’t deny, that’s a very legitimate fear. But one thing we are all going to have to realize is when we get in bed with government, we are going to get more than a good night’s sleep.

Source: Ronald Reagan
1978 Automotive Age Western Dealers Conference

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