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“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.”
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“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”
“We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.”
Ronald Reagan
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.”
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.”
“A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
