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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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 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.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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.