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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its read more
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
 And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first 
scarcity they will turn and bite the hand read more 
 And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first 
scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. 
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
 Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as 
regards its own people, is the strongest government read more 
 Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as 
regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world 
at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on 
the will, and the good will, of an instructed people. 
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
 So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
 [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga read more 
 So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
 [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius 
inflexum sit.] 
 . . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to 
determine whether a republican government read more 
 . . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to 
determine whether a republican government is practicable in a 
nation or not. 
 Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever 
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor read more 
 Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever 
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, 
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one 
dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right 
ought to be, free and independent States.