# Gene Burns on the Nature and Role of Government

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/gene-burns-nature-role-government>

**By** Gene Burns

**Published:** March 23, 1991

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Gene Burns is a talk radio host and ran for the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party in 1984. At this speech at a Libertarian Party of Georgia event in 1991, Burns describes the nature of government generally and the state of libertarianism at the end of the 20th century.