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Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
- George Washington |
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That government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Paine |
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When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.
- Thomas Paine |
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They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin |
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Thomas Paine |
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There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison |
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
- Patrick Henry |
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln |
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The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
-Thomas Paine |
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- James Madison |
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- Thomas Jefferson |
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw |
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.
- H.L. Mencken |
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No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain |
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville |
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H.L. Mencken |
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke |
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If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
- P.J. O'Rourke |
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There is no distinctly American criminal class save Congress.
- Mark Twain |
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain |
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There are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else.
- Alexis de Tocqueville |
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato |
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Isn't it about time we found Congress in contempt of The People?
- Anonymous |
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Orwell is starting to look like an optimist!
- Anonymous |
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams |
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin |
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lib·er·tar·i·an: One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
- American HeritageŽ Dictionary |
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