Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson

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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. – P. J. ORourke

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. – Isaac Watts

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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