"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
Abraham Lincoln
"All government, of course, is against liberty."
H. L. Mencken
"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Liberty has never come from government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance."
Woodrow Wilson
"The more corrupt the Republic, the more the laws."
Giovanni Sartori
"The greater the number of laws,
the greater the number of offenses
against them."
Havelock Ellis
"More laws just means more work for lawyers."
H. Ross Perot
"The money power
preys upon the nation in times of peace
and conspires against it
in times of adversity.
It is more despotic than monarchy,
more insolent than autocracy,
and more selfish than bureaucracy."
Abraham Lincoln
"When I meet a government that says to me, 'Your money or your life,’why should I be in haste to give it my money?"
Henry David Thoreau
"The history of Liberty is a history
of the limitations of governmental power
not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine
"It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top."
Henry George
"A nation never falls but by suicide."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a society is to remain free,
its government must be controlled."
Ayn Rand
"An oppressed people are authorized
whenever they can to rise up and break their fetters."
Henry Clay
"The right of revolt has sources deep in our history."
Justice William O. Douglas
"I hold a little rebellion now and then
is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
Thomas Jefferson
"All men recognize the right of revolution that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government with its tyranny or its efficiency are great and unendurable."
Henry David Thoreau