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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.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.