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Old 10-24-2006, 17:11   #1 (permalink)
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"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."
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Old 10-24-2006, 17:17   #2 (permalink)
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"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."
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H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's own. The Old Curmudgeon - he was nasty, but he was so right in many of his statements. Funny, too.

I agree with him here, though. We have about the best government, I think - and it leaves much to be desired.
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Old 10-24-2006, 17:24   #3 (permalink)
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H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's own. The Old Curmudgeon - he was nasty, but he was so right in many of his statements. Funny, too.

I agree with him here, though. We have about the best government, I think - and it leaves much to be desired.
Yes'm, it appears ours will fall under that heading of most tolerable even though it is arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent
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Oddly enough... even though there are many many decent people who make up governments... it does seem that the greedy bastids tend to control stuff.
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Call me ignorant, but I don't think government is all that bad. It has protected me from a murderous ex husband.
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Call me ignorant, but I don't think government is all that bad. It has protected me from a murderous ex husband.
When, if, your Jarhead comes home safe, then he has all necessaries to protect you from murderous ex-husband(s) and even from "our" government.

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