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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.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.