"The sovereign is called a tyrant who..." - Quote by Voltaire

“For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?”

“All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.”

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

“It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.”

“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”

“Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.”

“Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.”

“The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back”

“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.”