The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. – Gore Vidal
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. – Vladimir Lenin
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. – Thomas Paine
Governments never learn. Only people learn. – Milton Friedman
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – Andrew Jackson
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. – Wilhelm Reich
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. – Henry Clay
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. – Kay Bailey Hutchison
Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios. – Bill Owens
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. – Adrian Cronauer
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. – Dale Dauten
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. – Charles de Secondat
The essence of good government is trust. – Kathleen Sebelius
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. – James Q. Wilson
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. – Bill Owens
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. – Jonathan Mayhew
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. – Thomas Jefferson
