Built Quote by Norman Cousins

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

— Ronald Reagan

“Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the “truth.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

— Paul Craig Roberts

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

— Edward Snowden

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

— John Pilger

Big government squashes the human spirit

— Dennis Prager

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

— Geoff Mulgan

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

— I. F. Stone

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

— I. F. Stone

Truth is a big concept.

— Lukas Foss

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient…

— Ludwig von Mises

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Frank Herbert