Harry Reid Likens Tea Party To Anarchists

[natalukjoe]

HARRY REID: We have a situation where this country has been driven by the Tea Party for the last number of years. When I was in school, I studied government and I learned about the anarchists. Now, they were different than the Tea Party because they were violent. But they were anarchists because they did not believe in government in any level and they acknowledged it. The Tea Party kind of hides that.
Harry Reid Likens Tea Party To Anarchists, Says “Government Is Not Inherently Bad; Government Is Inherently Good”               

[chuck_curtis]

Contrast the words of puny Reid with these:

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.  George Washington

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.  Thomas Paine

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.   Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.  Thomas Jefferson

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.  Voltaire

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.  James Madison

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.  Leo Tolstoy

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.  Milton Friedman

The happiness of society is the end of government.  John Adams

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.  Frederic Bastiat