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• every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.
  The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his....
• The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil.
  -- Gladstone (paraphrased)...
• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family.
  But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living....
• A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
  -- Henry David Thoreau,_On the Duty of Civil Disobedience_...
• If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate. -- Murphy's Law of Governme
• Murphy's Law of Government: If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.
• That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience
• We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme.
  It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today....
• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...