Michael Huffington Quotes

That government is best which governs least.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

The more reason, the less government.

That government is best which governs least.

To people in virtually any age before our own, the only argument that mattered was between extremely small government and no government at all. Extremely small government meant there was at least some law and order; no government meant that there was not.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Have the government get out of the way.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

Attention shouldn't be on finding ways to build a better government; we should be looking at how to get government out of our lives.

That government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Everybody wants the government to be smaller and everyone wants the government to leave them alone.

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

I am a strong believer in small government that doesn't interfere in people's lives.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

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

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

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

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.