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Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
States are great engines moving slowly.
States are great engines moving slowly.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought read more
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should read more
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive read more
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
A government of laws, and not of men.
A government of laws, and not of men.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of read more
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
