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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998)
There are insane people who wish to rule the world. They wish to continue to rule the world on violence and repression, and we are all the victims of that violence and repression.
A government which cannot protect its humblest citizens from outrage and injury is unworthy of the name and ought not to command the support of a free people.
How, in one house,
Should many people, under two commands,
Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
A rational anarchist believes that concepts, such as "state" and "society" and "government" have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.
[M]en who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
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