The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

-- Thomas Paine

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

-- H. L. Mencken

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

-- Will Rogers

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

-- Bill Owens

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

-- Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

-- Dale Dauten

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The essence of good government is trust.

-- Kathleen Sebelius

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

-- Gore Vidal

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

-- Milton Friedman