• "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." - Gilbert K. Chesterton Tweet
• "When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." - Harry S. Truman Tweet
• "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." - William F. Buckley, Jr. Tweet
• "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." - Andrew Jackson Tweet
• "The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression." - H. L. Mencken Tweet
• "When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war." - Howard Zinn Tweet
• "To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places." - Wendell Phillips Tweet
• "Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work." - Mitt Romney Tweet
• "I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property." - James Madison Tweet
• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman Tweet