1. "History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."
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Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
2. "If men be good, government cannot be bad."
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Quote by William Penn
3. "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
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Quote by Milton Friedman
4. "I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater."
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Quote by Milton Friedman
5. "A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good."
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Charles Murray, What It Means to Be a Libertarian
6. "Crawling out of the flophouse I saw the mayor stealing my junk I doth protest, citizen's arrest Now my body's in his trunk Where's the shadow government when you need it? Where's the shadow government? It's a bad, bad world!"
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Quote by They Might Be Giants
7. "The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self."
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Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
8. "The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways."
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Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution
9. "A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives."
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Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
10. "a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory."
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Jim Dodge, Stone Junction