Excellent LDSLiberty Article

The Moral Question of Government

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the law," because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
– Thomas Jefferson

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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

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Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force!

- Barbie (Toy Story 3)

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As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it – it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.
– Jay Leno

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"I am weary of the President's unspoken premise that only government--indeed, only the federal government--can accomplish good in our society."
- William Redpath
(See full article "Libertarians respond to State of the Union Address")

Also gotta love John Stossel

And then from me:
I've learned to know better than to even attempt to watch the State of the Union Address. It's so far from being worth the anxiety attack and the compulsive desire to bang my head repeatedly on the coffee table. I know our current government is backwards, hearing the president reiterate just how backwards, and in what specific ways, just makes me want to scream.

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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
– F. Lee Bailey

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All the fiery rhetoric of the Founders was directed at a "tyrant" who taxed his subjects at a rate of about three percent. Today, we in "the land of the free" are taxed at about 50 percent when you add federal, state, and local taxes. What kind of government would do this? A dictatorship would.
– Doug Newman 

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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
- Larry Hardiman

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The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.
– Robert Ringer

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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
– James Fenimore Cooper

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Society exists for the benefit of its members – not the members for the benefit of society.
– Herbert Spencer

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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
-Voltaire

The Flag

This is a great article. Hits the nail on the head.

Misguided Patriotism and the Pledge of Allegiance

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
- Mikhail Bakunin