“Shi Tao is being unjustly punished by a government that routinely jails journalists.”
Ann Cooper
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
“We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.”
Ronald Reagan
“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”