“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Clippings from My Notebook
― Clippings from My Notebook
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
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“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.”
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