Anti-government Quotes

It’s almost impossible to love your country and hate your government.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages. You can disagree with them, or with Coolidge or Reagan or Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman or George Will, but to dismiss them as nothing more than mouthpieces of the wealthy and big business is to indulge in [a] sort of anti-intellectualism…

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

gangs with no claims whatsoever to legitimacy. They are funded by theft and the basis of all their operations is aggression. They're no more entitled to keep their activities secret than any other gaggle of murderers, rapists and thieves is..

he will become a malcontent and possibly espouse and give additional weight to the opposition to the Government .

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

More guns means less crime…. 1776 will commence again if you try and take our firearms…We will not relinquish them. Do you understand? … You’re not going to get our guns. You are a hatchet man for the New World Order.

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.'

Our enemy, and the enemy of all America, is the monopolistic government of the United States of America

Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

The government is just us.

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.

I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid - or at least unwise - but not necessarily racist.

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