"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country."
― Edward Abbey
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Government
― Edward Abbey
More From Edward Abbey
- "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
- "There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
- "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
More In Government
- "All that a good government aims at… is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities."― James F. Cooper
- "People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed."― Arlen Specter
- "It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."― John Kenneth Galbraith