"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
-Edward Abbey
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.“
-Edward Abbey
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
-Ronald Reagan
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
-Tom Robbins
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
-Thomas Sowell
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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