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• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselve
  consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks....
• Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,-- Take, I give it willingly
  For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me....
• Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
  -- James Madiso...
• The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.
  -- John Adams (1772)...
• Spitwads are not free speech.
• I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Speech, June 16, 1858...
• I have a message from Baron von Richtoffen, the greatest living German.
  Which considering his competition consists entirely of very fat men in leather shorts belching to the tune of 'She'll be Coming Round the Mountain', is no great achievement....
• Government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices. -- Harry Browne
• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender.
  I propose to move immediately upon your works. -- Ulysses S....