Life Quote by Ben Carson

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away”

— Barry Goldwater

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“The government is a giant corporation with no competition that is constantly trying to keep you off balance so it can siphon more money…

— Adam Carolla

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.”

— Mark Steyn

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The government exists for one purpose—to take everything away from you.”

— Scott Wallace

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

“if your government isn’t wasteful, you’re spending too much time fighting government waste.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

Big government squashes the human spirit

— Dennis Prager