They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program
George W. Bush
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it
Dwight David Eisenhower
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
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
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
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 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
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -because the first leads inevitably to the second
Harry Browne
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