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"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."

"We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant."

"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."

"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes."

"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."
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