Menu
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.