“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘the People’s Stick.’” Mikhail Bakunin in Statism and Anarchy
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O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long…
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O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long…
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“God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed… what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people…
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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and…
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“The only greater [evil] than separation… [is] living under a government of discretion.” Thomas Jefferson – to William Gordon, 1826.
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“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.” Thomas Jefferson
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if…
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“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” William Penn
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is…
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“The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.” Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota)…
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“to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them” George Mason
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and…
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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Mark Twain – 1894
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“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my…