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Originally Posted by marcopolo
The government that is big enough to give you anything you need is big enough to take from you everything you have.
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Three cheers for the above.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
--All by Thomas Jefferson, the first American Libertarian.
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