Affair Quote by Benjamin Constant

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

— Will Rogers

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably…

— Frederic Bastiat

Sometimes less is better with government.

— Lois Frankel

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

— Chris Chocola

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

— Joel Miller

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle…

— Chet Huntley

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty…

— Will Rogers

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

— Will Rogers

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested…

— John Stuart Mill

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

— Tulsi Gabbard

The government endangers us with our own money.

— James Cook

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

— Will Rogers