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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Winston Churchill

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground

Thomas Jefferson

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away

Ronald Reagan

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

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification

Malcolm Wallop

The primary function of the government is to spew out paper

Dave Barry

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds

John Perry Barlow

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

The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else

Frederic Bastiat

Government does not quiet destructive human behavior - it amplifies it

Mark D. Valenti

There are many things the government can't do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people

Lord Acton

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws

Ayn Rand

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule

H.L. Mencken

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 national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and ontrolled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

Mark Twain

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation

Thomas Reed

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law

Winston Churchill

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult

Andre Marrou

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them

P. J. OíRourke

Some people say that Libertarians want anarchy. But anarchy is what we have now. Our cities aren't safe, our schools are centers of violence, the politicians have turned the rule of law into a chaotic web of millions of regulations and mandates. Libertarians want to restore order by removing, wherever possible, the destabilizing influence of government

Harry Browne

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

Bertrand Russell

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program

Bob Wells

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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