“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”

“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.”

“The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” 

“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.” 

“For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.” 

“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.” 

I continued my efforts to educate myself. This was no easy task under the Russian government of Warsaw; yet I found more opportunities than in the country.

“From Ferguson to Athens, via Mexico, it is clear that many governments are reproducing the tools that Israel uses to repress and oppress the Palestinians. The replication of those same tactics, methods, and often weapons serves as proof that the Palestinians are now used as guinea pigs for experimentation.” 

“There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As” 

“While Arab governments and Palestinian leaders were willing to participate in a new and more reasonable UN peace initiative in 1948, the Israelis assassinated the UN peace mediator, Count Bernadotte, and rejected the suggestion of the Palestine Conciliation Commission (PCC), a UN body, to reopen negotiations. This intransigent view would continue; Avi Shlaim has shown in The Iron Wall that, contrary to the myth that the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss peace, it was Israel that constantly rejected the peace offers that were on the table.” 

“the countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.” 

“Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.” 

“[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.” 

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

I think it's important to vote.

“Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.”