“Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.”– Rick Perry Related Quotes “For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.”– Sandra Day O’Connor “The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”– Andrew Jackson