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| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. |
| Bob Wells |
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| For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? |
| Thomas Paine |
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| Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| 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 |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. |
| Ayn Rand |
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| Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. |
| George Washington |
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| Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| 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 |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. |
| Thomas Paine |
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| Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. |
| Wendell Phillips |
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| I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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