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• When we talk about property, state, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them.
• When all government ...in little as in great things.
  .. shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all powe...
• when all government... in little as in great thing
  hall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government.
  We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power....
• We must further expressly and exactly establish the point of view, no less necessary in practice, from which war is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
  -- Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)...
• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The first measure of a free society is *not* that its government performs the will of the majority.
  We had that in 1930s Germany and in the South until the '60s....
• Government: You make it, we take it.