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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Exercise
Government
Limits
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Government
Political
Ignorant
Government is best which governs least
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Freedom
DemocraciesHave
Government
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Government
People
Liberty
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thinking
Government
Two
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Country
Government
Patriot
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Fall
Government
Hands
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
PursuitOfHappiness
Government
People
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Masters
Servant
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Mean
Army
Government
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Gun
Government
Southern
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility
Government
America
Theodore Roosevelt
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Mean
Government
People
Theodore Roosevelt
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
― Terence McKenna
Government
Dmt
Terence McKenna
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.
― George Washington
George Washington
Government
Law
Confusion
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
― George Washington
George Washington
Government
Lasts
Treasury
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Law
Government
People
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
― Ayn Rand
Gun
Government
Historical
Ayn Rand
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
― Ayn Rand
Government
People
Support
Ayn Rand
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
― Ayn Rand
Government
Controlled
Ifs
Ayn Rand
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