• "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
  -- Thomas Jefferson

  
  

• "The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."
  -- Frederic Bastiat

  
  

• "Government does not quiet destructive human behavior - it amplifies it."
  -- Mark D. Valenti

  
  

• "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
  -- Voltaire

  
  

• "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, from his First Inaugural Address

  
  

• "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
  -- John Adams, "Notes for an Oration at Braintree" (1772)

  
  

• "Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer."
  -- Ludwig von Mises

  
  

• "There are many things the government can't do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people."
  -- Lord Acton

  
  

• "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."
  -- Ayn Rand

  
  

• "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

  
  

• "The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and ontrolled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

  
  

• "A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -because the first leads inevitably to the second."
  -- Harry Browne

  
  

• "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
  -- Thomas Jefferson, (1781)

  
  

• "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
  -- John Hay, (1872)

  
  

• "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

  
  

• "Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute -- often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is."
  -- Charley Reese, (1998)

  
  

• "Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
  -- Mark Twain

  
  

• "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
  -- Lord Acton

  
  

• "Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
  -- Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb

  
  

• "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
  -- H.L. Mencken

  
  

• "This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians."
  -- Hugh Downs

  
  

• "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
  -- Thomas Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1886)

  
  

• "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
  -- Ronald Reagan

  
  

• "If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law."
  -- Winston Churchill

  
  

• "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
  -- Barry Goldwater

  
  

• "The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'"
  -- Harry Browne

  
  

• "Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult."
  -- Andre Marrou

  
  

• "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
  --P. J. O’Rourke, "Parliament of Whores "

  
  

• "Some people say that Libertarians want anarchy. But anarchy is what we have now. Our cities aren't safe, our schools are centers of violence, the politicians have turned the rule of law into a chaotic web of millions of regulations and mandates. Libertarians want to restore order by removing, wherever possible, the destabilizing influence of government."
  -- Harry Browne

  
  

• We must obey God rather than men.
  --Acts 5:29