{"quotes":[{"text":"The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["big-government","bill-of-rights","central-planning","civil-rights","democide","diversity","ethnic-minorities","eugenics","genocide","individual-liberty","individualism","individuality","libertarian","libertarianism","planned-societies","totalitarianism"],"id":4395,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["big-government","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","oligarchy","representation","representatives"],"id":7258,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["big-government","government","politics"],"id":56282,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"This book (Jarod Kintz's book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that's where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven't read it. I would have, but I am homeless, mainly due to my illiteracy (though Big Government, Keynesian monetary policy, and my struggle with alcoholism certainly played a large role).","author":"Dora J. Arod","tags":["absurd","admission","big-government","books","government","keynes","keynesian","monetary-policy","reading","review"],"id":143778,"author_id":"Dora+J.+Arod"},{"text":"It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no duck.","author":"Molly Ivins","tags":["big-government","government","regulation","rules","society"],"id":184857,"author_id":"Molly+Ivins"},{"text":"Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["big-government","freedom","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","liberty","limited-government"],"id":216817,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Our present system is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent. When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render him what is God's — that is a sacrifice we dare not make!","author":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","tags":["big-government","church-and-state","government","society"],"id":298539,"author_id":"Aleksandr+Solzhenitsyn"},{"text":"Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.","author":"George Monbiot","tags":["big-government","capitalism","conservatism","deregulation","regulation","small-government"],"id":331912,"author_id":"George+Monbiot"},{"text":"We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren’t the only two alternatives.","author":"Michael Monroe","tags":["afterlife","big-business","big-government","dystopian-fiction","politics","post-apocalyptic","science-fiction","western"],"id":361454,"author_id":"Michael+Monroe"},{"text":"Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2004","big-government","car-alarms","cars","law","mayoralty-of-michael-bloomberg","michael-bloomberg","pettiness","tyranny"],"id":375093,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}