Word of the Day

gov·ern·ment n.

1. An institution employed by the rich to legally plunder humanity.
2. A cartel capable of acquiring the encouragement of its victims.
3. An entity whereby wealth is redistributed from the poor and productive to the super rich and unproductive under the guise of social responsibility.
4. The business of selling false hope.
5. The abstraction whereby consciousness is exchanged for abstraction.
   
6. An organization whose success is measured by its intentions rather than its results.
   
7. An association that profits most from failure.
8. The primary beneficiary of thoughtlessness.
9. The means through which humanity dissolves virtue and prosperity.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like a fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Attributed to George Washington, but apocryphal