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Government

«Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.»
«Good government is good politics.»
«Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.»
«Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.»
«Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Government | Keywords: government, intolerable, state, worst
«Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.»
«Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent»
«Good government is no substitute for self-government»
«Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it»
«From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?»

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