Experience has shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
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The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed not for the governors.
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