There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Governments' programs once launched unfortunately never disappear...Get real.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise. — Mia Love Copy Share Image
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money… — T. J. Rodgers Copy Share Image
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry,… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is… — George Will Copy Share Image
“I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
In the war on drugs, state and state law enforcement agencies have been rewarded in cash by the federal government - through… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already… — Veronika Skvortsova Copy Share Image
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs,… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
