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• That government is best which governs not at all.
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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. -- Henry David Thoreau
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• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison.
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