Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
Government is dysfunctional.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
In America, public opinion is the leader.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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