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		...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				George Jonas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Han Fei 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. Rap Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathan Myhrvold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rand Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Idris Elba 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Olivia Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Isaac Asimov 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rahm Emanuel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Umberto Eco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The United States influences government and life everywhere else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Castle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lajos Kossuth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. C. Watts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rand Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin Newsom