The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

The government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

For most Americans Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace good people don't go into government.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy high unemployment falling wages rising gas prices the national debt the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Only government can take perfectly good paper cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights true religion affords to government it's surest support.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.

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 circlue of our felicities.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God not from government.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread not for our government.