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It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- — Democritus
The more power a government has [...] the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects.
- — R.J. Rummel
A pessimist asked God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something—the mortality of the optimist."
- — Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil’s Dictionary", 1911
You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you.
- — Pericles
Politics, from the Greek "poly", meaning many, and "ticks", small, annoying bloodsuckers.
- — Dave Barry
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
- — Mary McCarthy
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
- — Mark Skousen
The most obvious problem with State education is that State teachers will never teach children about the violent nature of the State. How could they? Imagine a teacher telling her students: I am paid with money taken from people by violent means – your parents must pay me or they will be thrown in jail – this entire system of instruction is based on violence – the State uses coercion to achieve its ends. Can you picture any violent system – other than organized crime – being honest about coercion? Of course not.
- — Stefan Molyneux
Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it’s worst, an intolerable one.
- — Thomas Paine
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