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To: servo1969
""This notion that government is inherently bad is new.”"

Tell that to our founding fathers who created this paradise you were raised in you idiot. You may have a science degree, but your way of thinking outside that realm is truly asinine.

4 posted on 05/10/2012 6:30:35 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar
He also said that “this notion that government is inherently bad is new,”
"The third, and most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government, is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government, causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused, and converts, more and more, the active and ambitious part of the public into hangers-on of the government, or of some party which aims at becoming the government.
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a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished;"
- JS MIll On Liberty, 1859

72 posted on 05/10/2012 10:09:38 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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