All Quotes
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Do we really deserve top billing?Fred Allen
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.Robert Heinlein
The less government we have the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)
A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.Charles De Gaulle