Quote by John Updike
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness it

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman

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The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. – Paul Ryan

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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. – Tony Blair

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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government. – Tim Scott

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