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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan 
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
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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.
Fred Woodworth
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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