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"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."
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"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."
"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"
"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
"When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momentum will always become greater than the influence of it's wisest members."
"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
"How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?"
"Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper."
"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
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"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."
"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics."
"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"
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