Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Henry Louis Mencken
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic
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