“When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.”– Rick Perry Related Quotes “A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”– Thomas Jefferson “Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”– James Russell Lowell “The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.”– Mitt Romney