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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.
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics read more
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the read more
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in read more
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.
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.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one read more
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, read more
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an
insult.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.