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• The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed.
  -- Jeff Snyde...
• There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE.
  From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it....
• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
  Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net....
• People don't change; they only become more so. -- John Bright-Holme
• The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-188) Prime Minister of Great Britai...
• 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)...
• In the beginning the Universe was created... This made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe...
• Government is a burden on the people.
• Government of the people, by the lawyers, for the conservatives.