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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
That government is best which governs least.