Causes Quote by John Stuart Mill

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

— Joel Miller

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

— Thomas Sowell

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior…

— Calvin Coolidge

We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention,…

— Calvin Coolidge

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most…

— Jim DeMint

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

— Rob Lowe

Everybody wants the world to be a better place, and some think that government actions can bring that about. But they don't take into…

— Eugene Fama

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that…

— Steve Forbes

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the…

— Charles Koch