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• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• Gun Control - the belief that government, with its great wisdom and moral superiority, can be trusted with a monopoly on deadly force.
• I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• He who beleives in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
• You are shrewd in business and cannot be trusted.
• It is error alone which needs the support of government.
  Truth can stand by itself. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Notes on Virginia...
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• In our society, the Republicans set out to prove that the Democrats can not be trusted to run the government.
  And the Democrats set out to prove that the Republicans can not be trusted to run our government....
• No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.
  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself...