Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain

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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. – James Madison

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Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. – Robert Conklin

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