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“We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same,…

— Antonin Sertillanges

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we…

— Edmund Burke

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes…

— John Adams

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by…

— James Madison

“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is…

— Leonard E. Read

“A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;”

— Thomas Paine