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• If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it dissolve them and elect a new people?
• If the government doesn't trust us with our guns, why should we trust them with theirs?
• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustee
  and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people....
• Government is a burden on the people.
• Government of the people, by the lawyers, for the conservatives.
• Progress doesn't enlighten people - it just makes them stupid in new ways.
• Some people wouldn't be happy if you hung them with a new rope!
• As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust.
  Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people....