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"To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck."
 By: | James Bovard (more quotes by James Bovard or books by/about James Bovard) |
| (1956- ) American author, lecturer |
Source: | Freedom in Chains, The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin's Press), 2000 |
Categories: | Apathy, Citizenship, Government, Ignorance, Power, Responsibility, Trust, Humanity |
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