My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
I've always been about less government.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
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