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• 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....
• When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen.
  There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. Patrick Overto...
• If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
  -- Alphonse Ka...
• All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
  Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immenseley the value of your first....
• When all government ...in little as in great things.
  .. shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all powe...
• when all government... in little as in great thing
  hall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated....
• We had time taken away from us, and now it's been given back to us because it's running out.
  -- Barbara, EDGE OF DESTRUCTION...
• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
  -- John Locke (1632-1704)...
• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
  -- John Locke...