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“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
― Edward Abbey

“Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
― Jon Stewart

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
― Rush Limbaugh

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.”
― Will Rogers

“I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam
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― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?”
― Oleg Atbashian

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
― Voltaire

“The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.”
― Adrian Rogers