Excellent Quotes That Should be Memorized in School

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."-Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time." -H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."-George Washington

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." -H. L. Mencken

"Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns."-Thomas Jefferson

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." -Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it."-Woodrow Wilson

"Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?" -Ralph Nader

"Government employees (Bureaucrats) like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems." -George Van Valkenburg

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -Harry S. Truman