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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

— Harry Browne

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

— Matthew Lesko

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

— James F. Cooper

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

— Lewis Black

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

— Jan Brewer

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

— George Clooney

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

— Aaron Swartz

✗Opposing Perspectives

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

— Ayn Rand

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

— William E. Gladstone

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer