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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

— John Perry Barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

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Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

My time coming, any day, don't worry about me, no
Been so long I felt this way, I'm in no hurry, no.

I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Planet JH Weekly interview (2005)

You now have two distinct ways of gathering information beyond what you yourself can experience.

John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)

Cyberspace does not lie within your borders.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

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

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

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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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