“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
~H. L. Mencken

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
~C. S. Lewis

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
~Plato

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”
~Charles de Montesquieu

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.”
~H. L. Mencken

“The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.”
~P. J. O’Rourke

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