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The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own read more
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say read more
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the hand read more
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
