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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. – William J. Brennan, Jr.

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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. – P. J. ORourke

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. – James Russell Lowell

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