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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."	Victor Hugo
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."	William F. Buckley
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."	John F. Kennedy
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."	Thomas Paine
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."	George Washington
"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
"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
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."	Calvin Coolidge
"That government is best which governs least."	Thomas Paine
"A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration."	Abraham Lincoln
"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?"	Thomas Paine

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