Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out…

H. L. Mencken
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings. ✨ H. L. MENCKEN (1924). PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES
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