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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." Victor Hugo 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." William F. Buckley 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." Adam Smith 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all -- inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all." Thomas Sowell 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption." James Garfield 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." Patrick Henry 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy 4.954545454545454 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine 4.902439024390244 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." Alexander Hamilton 4.9 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson 4.882352941176471 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry 4.875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Hermann Goering 4.868421052631579 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington 4.865384615384615 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master." Dwight Eisenhower 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." Aristotle 4.851851851851852 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten." Calvin Coolidge 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"That government is best which governs least." Thomas Paine 4.7795275590551185 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration." Abraham Lincoln 4.777777777777778 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?" Thomas Paine 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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