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• An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and breaktheir fetters.
  -- Henry Clay (1777-1852) American Statesman -- Speech, House of representatives, March 4, 1818...
• If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it dissolve them and elect a new people?
• Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinlein.
• Sure you can trust the government...just ask American Indians.
• If the government doesn't trust us with our guns, why should we trust them with theirs?
• 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....
• A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, March 17, 1845...
• Can you trust a government that subsidizes tobacco and tries to ban vitamins to make intelligent choices about your health care?