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Politicians need human misery. ... Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure. – L. Neil Smith Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life. – Mark Skousen Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul. – Saadi Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
[T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed. – Anthony Sutton Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The Radical creed, as I understand it, is this: We have not abandoned our old belief in liberty, justice, and Self-help, but we say that under certain conditions the people cannot help themselves, and that then they should be helped by the State representing directly the whole people. In giving this State help, we make three conditions: first, the matter must be one of primary social importance; next, it must be proved to be practicable; thirdly, the State interference must not diminish self-reliance. Even if the chance should arise of removing a great social evil, nothing must be done to weaken those habits of individual self-reliance and voluntary association which have built up the greatness of the English people. – Arnold J. Toynbee Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. – John Locke Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. – Alexis de Tocqueville Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations. – Charley Reese Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. – Albert Jay Nock Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. – Henry Clay Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
I have been forced to the conclusion that we cannot win this war for England, regardless of how much assistance we extend. – Charles A. Lindbergh Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. – Franklin D. Roosevelt Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A reactionary is someone with a clear and comprehensive vision of an ideal world we have lost. – Kenneth Minogue Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. (on Russia and America) – Alex de Tocqueville Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they - as we know - do so at their peril. – Henry Steele Commager Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
What kind of government is this? It's getting more like California all the time. – Woody Allen Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Who says I am not under the special protection of God? – Adolf Hitler Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. – Warren E. Burger Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
I believe there is something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government. – Woody Allen Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children. – Marguerite Yourcenar Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. – Steve Martin Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
[N]othing can be more opposed [to American principles] than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greater number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogenous, incoherent, distracted mass. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges. – Justice Joseph Story Famous Quote	added 5 years ago

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