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The U.S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate.

— James Bovard

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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994)

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.

The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.

A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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