"A wise and frugal Government, shall leave [men] otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address. Straight up his own words.
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." She did indeed speak to this sentiment in the following: Margaret Thatcher, in a TV interview for Thames TV This Week on Feb. 5, 1976, Prime Minister Thatcher said, "...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."- Margaret Thatcher
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto. Marx did use this phrase often, but it originated by another communist, Louis Blanc, in 1840 who phrased it this way to reflect sentiments expressed in French communist Morelly's 1755 work Code of Nature.
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Many have seen this quote, which isn't entirely accurate. The exact wording is nowhere to be found in Jefferson's works, although the following statement reflects the same sentiment and the previous words may be a rewording of the following: "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, ‘the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it.'"- Thomas Jefferson
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." His exact wording is "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"- Benjamin Franklin
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have." - Gerald Ford, Aug. 12, 1974, to joint session of Congress (often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, quite often)
"Our aim is to increase our national wealth so all will have more, not just redistribute what we already have, which is just a sharing of scarcity. We can begin to reward hard work and risk-taking, by forcing this government to live within its means. We can leave our children with an unrepayable massive debt and a shattered economy, or we can leave them liberty in a land where every individual has the opportunity to be whatever God intended us to be." - Ronald Reagan, Address to the nation on the economy, February 5, 1981
"The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government. . . [My intention is] to make government work--work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. . . It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government." - Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address
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