“Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed”
Thomas Jefferson
“If you cannot take what you give, then you have no business to be in the super power business.”
Muhammed Haider
“The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”
Benjamin Franklin
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
