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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?
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Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
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Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.
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There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.
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If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.
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Government not just for a few, it belongs to the common people.
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Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.
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I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the ... government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.
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The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.
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The only government that I recognize
and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army
is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
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Government is the enemy until you need a friend.
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I am the Federal Government.
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Government exists only for the good of the governed.
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Governments are just large corporations, and large corporations are just small governments.
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A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
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All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.
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The government that governs best, governs best!
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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.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.
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Government is an unnecessary evil.
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The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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A government of laws, and not of men
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Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!
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The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.
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Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
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The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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The business of the government is the business of the people.
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The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.
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That government that governs least governs best.
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People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.
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A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
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The government is worst which governs most.
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What is government but theft by consent?
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Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.
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Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.
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As a rule, the Government appoints its friends.
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You see, I'm from your government, and I'm here to help you.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
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The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.
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Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
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If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.
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Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.
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Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
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Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
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All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?
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Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.
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The business of government is justice.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
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The only good government ... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
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That government which governs best, governs least.
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A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
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Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
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Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.
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Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
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A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.
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The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
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The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.
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Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.
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Our supreme governors, the mob.
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We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
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Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us ...
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Here sir, the people govern.
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.
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Governments are not always right.
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
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Never turn your back on government.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
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Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks can have a house without having a home. We can keep people breathing with good health care, but they still may not really be alive.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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Government is a gang of thieves writ large.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.