3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
3 December 2020 Jerry Lewis If you’re an old pro, you know how well you’re doing when you’re doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you’re not doing well.
3 December 2020 Edward Abbey Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.
3 December 2020 Peggy Noonan If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
3 December 2020 Carroll Quigley In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
3 December 2020 Scott Walker I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
3 December 2020 Curt Schilling Every dollar I can’t commit to my company that’s paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don’t want done.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein 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.
3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
3 December 2020 Curt Schilling I don’t have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte 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.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
3 December 2020 John Bright The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
3 December 2020 William Hague I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
3 December 2020 Tim Scott We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
3 December 2020 Gerry Adams For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
