“It is not the disease, but the physician; it is the pernicious hand of government alone which can reduce a whole people to despair.”

Aint it the truth.

As Tom Paine expressed it:

" Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: The palaces of kings are built on the bowers of the ruins of paradise."

Politicians need human misery. ... Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure.

~ L. Neil Smith