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I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be. — John Henry Mackay
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish… — James Madison
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief… — Thomas Jefferson
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. — Charles de Gaulle
He who is brave is free. — Seneca the Younger
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide
Love your country, but never trust its government. — Robert A. Heinlein
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... — John Marshall
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as… — John F. Kennedy
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service… — Frederic Bastiat
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… — Henry David Thoreau
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens… — James Madison
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a… — Edward V. Long
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion — George Washington
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of… — Thomas Jefferson
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government… — Harry Browne
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin
The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has… — Andrew Ford
See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they… — Dave Barry
I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals. — Ayn Rand
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. — Hilaire Belloc
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust… — Aldous Huxley
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. — Ramsey Clark
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the… — Thomas Jefferson

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