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Government Definition
(n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
(n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.
(n.) The right or power of governing; authority.
(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.
(n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.
(n.) Management of the limbs or body.
(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.
Set men up to rule their fellow-men, to treat them as mere soulless material with which they may deal as they please, and the consequence is that you sweep away every moral landmark and turn this worl...
Auberon Herbert
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anarchy, ancap, coercion, free, free market, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, non aggression principle
Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy," which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".
Larken Rose
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aggression, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free markets, government, laissez faire
[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states pr...
Will Durant
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democracy, development, economics, egalitarianism, government, monarchy, politics, republic, voltaire
My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference...
Lawrence W. Reed
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anarcho capitalism, anarchy, ancap, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, democracy, evil, free
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have...
Wilhelm Reich
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government, bubonic plague, church, ideologies, love, orgasm, politics, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy