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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
- — John Adams
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- — Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
- — Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- — Honore de Balzac
Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
- — Adam Smith
A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- — Milton Friedman
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
- — Thomas Jefferson
Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- — Robert Heinlein
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation.
I am interested in politics so that someday I will not have to be interested in politics.
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