"It is not the disease, but the physician; it is the pernicious hand of government alone which can reduce a whole people to despair."
by:
Junius
the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser, from January 21, 1769 to January 21, 1772
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Aint it the truth.
 -- jim k, Austin     
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    As Tom Paine expressed it:

    " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: The palaces of kings are built on the bowers of the ruins of paradise."
     -- Patrick Henry, Red Hill     
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     -- Mike, Norwalk      

    Politicians need human misery. ... Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure.

    ~ L. Neil Smith


     -- E Archer, NYC     
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