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The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

— Gerry Spence

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There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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