Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government. Alexander Hamilton
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
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. Woody Allen
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
Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today. Mitt Romney
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
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. 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
I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work. Mitt Romney
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. Will Rogers
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
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. Ron Paul
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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