“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins … Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” —Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. … We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting people to eat because we do not want the state to raise the grain.”
– Frédéric Bastiat, <The Law, 1849
“If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years they’d have a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman, PhD, Nobel Laureate
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth:‘I, the State, am the people’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, 1883
“Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.” — Robert LeFevre, Aggression is Wrong, 1963
“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.” – H.L. Mencken
“Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service, when it is violating all His laws.” – John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 2, 1816
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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.” – H.L. Mencken
Absolutely true. As well as the one below it. "They think they are doing God's work while they break all His laws."
here is a quote. if only obama would be so dedicated in creating jobs and less spending as he is with gun control, he be great!
don't you long for men like this to be speaking out today, to be our leaders, to be making the calls? maybe someday the vast majority of the lo-voter, the uninformed will see the truth. one can only hope.
My God!!! "Tin foil hats" were being sold back in Paine's day? And how did Adams and Jefferson EVER get to their exalted status with that kind of "fringe" thinking?? Those traitors! Those treasonous worms!!! I know that a WHOLE LOT of modern Americans are extrememly happy that their ideas didn't take hold....imagine where we would be....
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