Some views on government...

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
(1994)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

-P.J. O'Rourke

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
-Mark Twain (1866

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the of the blessings.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

I think this last one is the best.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill