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A government of laws, and not of men. - John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men. – John Adams

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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God
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John Adams
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. – John Adams

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Freedom
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus

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Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that theyre purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, lets get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of – innocent citizens. – John Mica

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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know its bold. Its out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background its hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. – Newt Gingrich

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Government

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham

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