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• In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and to give it to the other.
  -- Voltaire (1694-1778) "Philosophical Dictionary" Money...
• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
  Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again....
• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy--a policy worthy of imitation.
  All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship....
• Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal governme
  which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• Consultancy - The art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*
  and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage....
• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms.
  [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible....
• The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary governme
  one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible....