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“The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
Ronald Reagan
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”
Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.”
“Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.”
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
“The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”
Plato
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
