“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.” YearsFirstsCountryGovernmentSpiritFourChangedThousandSucceedSeriesInjusticeThousand YearsConquest Author:Ezra Stiles
“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentPurposeMillionsThousandHundredFunctionEmploymentAppropriateFortyEmployed Author:James A. Garfield
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.” SometimesShowsGovernmentMightLawHouseSpeakEnemyThousandProtectArmySacredPropertySilentInstanceBurningPrivate PropertyInvading Author:Andrew Jackson