The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. – Thomas Sowell
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. – Will Rogers
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. – Nelson Mandela
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. – Will Rogers
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. – Milton Friedman
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. – Milton Friedman
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. – Napoleon Bonaparte
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. – Ron Paul
The happiness of society is the end of government. – John Adams
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire
The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract. – Robert A. Heinlein
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. – Thomas Sowell
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. – Ron Paul
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. – H. L. Mencken
And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job. – Mitt Romney
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken
