"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted." ― Percy Bysshe Shelley Topic(s): Death More From Percy Bysshe Shelley "Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay." "Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves." "Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it." More In Death "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."― Milton Friedman "Give me liberty or give me death."― Patrick Henry "Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live."― Henry Van Dyke