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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi
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“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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Book:God in the Dock
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“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

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Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
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“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
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“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.”

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Author:John Adams
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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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“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

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Author:George Jean Nathan
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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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