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• Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinlein.
• The true strength of a country is best demonstrated by the willingness of its government to tolerate challenges from it's own citizens.
• Lisa: This place is so enchanting, Hugh. I love it here!
  Hugh: I wanted this to be perfect for you. I know you Americans like everything to be....
• One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government.
  We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power....
• Fantasy: A government that doesn't have it's hand on your wallet.
• I LOVE my country, but I FEAR my government.
• A New Yorker is riding down the road in his new Mercedes.
  So intent is he on the cocaine in his hand he completely misses a turn and his car plunges over the five-hundred-foot cliff to be smashed into pieces at the bottom....
• A large sign on the wall reads "Grand central station".
• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
  -- Joseph Addiso...