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Famous Quotes

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat on Government

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."
Thomas Jefferson on Government
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill on Government
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson on Government
"Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington on Government
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine on Government

"And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?"
"In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?"
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
"Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?"
"And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?"