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I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. C...more

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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most cons...more

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This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant los...more

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for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

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The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before ...more

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Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress...more