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The idea that government has some omnipotence or omniscience is completely absurd and counter to all the thinking that went into our country.

— Jerry Brown

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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

There is an overblown rhetoric and overblown expectation that if there is a problem there must be program to solve it.

Many regulations primarily protect the past, prop up privilege or prevent sensible economic choices.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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