"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
"It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals."
"This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire."
"Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights."
"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free."
"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
"A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government."
"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."
"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly."
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
"To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote."
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
"My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work."
"My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance."
"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays."
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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