Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, “Unlimited Government” (Dec. 29, 1961).
“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
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William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Frame of Government (1682)
Context: Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 213)
“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Wayles Eppes (9 September 1814). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 11 http://files.libertyfund.org/files/807/0054-11_Bk.pdf, pp. 425-426 <br class="br">1810s <br class="br">Context: [... ] Congress itself can punish Alexandria, by repealing the law which made it a town, by discontinuing it as a port of entry or clearance, and perhaps by suppressing it’s banks. But I expect all will go off with impunity. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness. No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only.