Government big enough to supply everything you need is big…

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government…

— Thomas Jefferson

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

— Barry Goldwater

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

— Gerald R. Ford

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

— Barry Goldwater

As government grows, freedom recedes.

— Thomas Jefferson

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

— Will Durant

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the…

— Roger Pilon

Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time.…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the…

— Stefan Molyneux

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

— Glenn Beck

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

— John Stossel

Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily…

— Jack Kelly

I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans…

— Ed Royce

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

— John Fund