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“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

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Book:James Madison's
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“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

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Author:James Madison
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy
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“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill
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“I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.”

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Author:Moby
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“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”

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Author:Charles A. Beard
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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

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Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
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“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

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Author:Thomas Paine
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“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

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Author:Thomas Paine
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“These are the times that try men's souls.”

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Author:Thomas Paine
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“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan
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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw
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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

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Author:Mark Twain
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“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

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Book:The works of Daniel Webster
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“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis
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“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis
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“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

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Author:Thomas Paine
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“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

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Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
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“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

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Book:Young Statesman
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”

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Book:Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles
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“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”

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Book:The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
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