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- Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator.
- Phil Stromer 11/9/90-
- A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to James Madison, 1787
- ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
- The less government we have the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
- What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- #3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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