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The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville...
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.
It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions....
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law...
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it.
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils. -- General George Stark.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would .
.. [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. -- Henry David Thoreau...
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 a...
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fulle

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