They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In 1940, teachers were asked what they regarded as the three major problems in American schools. The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. This country is a one-party country.