Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
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.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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