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I stand here today, as Governor of this sovereign state, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government.

— George Wallace

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If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

As your governor, I shall resist any illegal federal court order, even to the point of standing at the schoolhouse door in person, if necessary.

Gubernatorial campaign promise (1962)

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over.

Speech (1979)

If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.

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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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