Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away
Barry Goldwater
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it
Ronald Reagan
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -because the first leads inevitably to the second
Harry Browne
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error
Robert H. Jackson
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty
John Adams
With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens -- a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them 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, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
Henry Louis Mencken
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds
John Perry Barlow
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action
George Washington
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away
Ronald Reagan