Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. George Washington
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. Ron Paul
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Gerald R. Ford
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. Frank Lloyd Wright
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. Robert A. Heinlein
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. George Washington
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. Ron Paul
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. Benito Mussolini
The government is us we are the government, you and I. Theodore Roosevelt
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. George Washington
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. James Madison
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. Voltaire
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Plato
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
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. Voltaire