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• I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these Calculating Engines.
  I have also declined several offers of great personal advantage to myself....
• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
  There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent....
• God helps those who help themselves. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xxiii...
• Many books require no thought from those who read them, for a very simple reason- they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
  Those works, therefore, are the most valuable that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation....
• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
  -- Frank Herbe...
• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
  . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive....
• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• he value of the constitution depends on the good will of government itself.
  If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the constitution is meaningless....
• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.
  The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual....