Author: Ronald Reagan

Today if you invent a better mousetrap the government comes along with a better mouse.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The taxpayer – that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little the problem is that government spends too much.

Government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives.