"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." . . . English writer, humanist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) . . .
"The essence of a liberal soul is the absence of the desire to exert power over other people." . . . economist Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) . . .
"The more information government gathers on people, the more power it will have over them. The more power it has to monitor their peaceful activities, the more intimidated Americans will become." . . . James Bovard - The Freeman, 1/1/04 . . .
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"[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." . . . Candidus (aka, Samual Adams), the Boston Gazette, 1772 . . .
"[T]here are Democrats with an uncanny ability to be malleable, apathetic and partisan in the face of an intrusive state. In January 2006, when George W. Bush was president, Pew Research Center asked Democrats how they felt about the NSA's surveillance programs. Thirty-seven percent labeled the spying ‘acceptable,’ and 61 percent said they were ‘unacceptable.’ The reverse is true today, as 64 percent of Democrats believe that Barack Obama's surveillance programs are ‘acceptable’ and 34 percent say they're not." . . . columnist David Harsanyi - Jun 13, 2013 . . .
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"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." . . . James Madison . . .
"Imagine for a moment if black civil rights organizations, gay groups or teachers unions loudly complained to members of Congress and the press that the IRS was discriminating against them. How long would it take for the White House to investigate? Answer honestly: Minutes? Hours? . . . journalist Jonah Goldberg . . .
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." . . . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) . . .
"The most perfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he becomes the slave of base passions and vile lusts; he introduces confusion and disorder into society, and brings misery and destruction upon himself. This, therefore, cannot be called a state of freedom, but a state of the vilest slavery and the most dreadful bondage. The servants of sin and corruption are subjected to the worst kind of tyranny in the universe. Hence we conclude that where licentiousness begins, liberty ends." . . . Rev. Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel Against Governors, 1776 . . .
"If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'" . . . author and Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) . . .
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent." . . . economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) . . .
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." . . . Thomas Jefferson, fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 . . .
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