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Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less. — Richard Cobden

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government. — Mike Huckabee

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom. — Ralph Hall

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable. — Henry David Thoreau

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives. — Craig Benson

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals. — Wang Jianlin

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less. — James Cook

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism ... — Thomas Jefferson

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives. — Rick Perry

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy. — Merrick Garland

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader. — Mark McKinnon

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom. — John Stossel

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that. — Howard Stern

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

Less government in business and more business in government. — Warren G. Harding

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders. — Abraham Lincoln

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. — Rick Perry

We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. — Larry Elder

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers. — Malachy McCourt

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government. — Carly Fiorina

The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. — Tony Campolo

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. — Michel De Montaigne

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians. — John Stossel No They Can T

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion. — Monica Crowley

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. — Edward Gibbon

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom. — Ronald Reagan

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom. — Steve Forbes

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. — Martin Van Buren

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. — John Maynard Keynes

They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want. — Douglas Adams

Good government has to mean less government. — John Stossel No They Can T

More freedom means more jobs ... less government and less taxes. — Todd Akin

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less. — Charles Kennedy

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over. — Milton Friedman

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that. — Michele Bachmann

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. — Bob Riley

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. — Herbert Croly

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation. — Warren G. Harding

We must have government that spends less and does less. — Tom Coburn

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans. — R. H. Tawney

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more. — Matt Ridley

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy. — Marsha Blackburn

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives. — Edmund Phelps

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get. — Frank Zappa

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government. — Jay-Z

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result. — Raymond Kelly

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. — Henry Clay

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. — Rupert Murdoch

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation. — William H. Douglas

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. — Douglas Feith

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. — Steven Pinker

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. — Rupert Murdoch

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet? — Peter J. Carroll

People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed. — Marsha Blackburn

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy. — John Wesley

The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more. — Neal Boortz

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig Von Mises

The less government, the better — Drew Carey

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I've always been about less government. — Kelly Clarkson