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One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes …

One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on the guilt. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982 [On why one needs objective laws]

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and …

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950

Patriots today see government in Washington as an expensive, intrusive institution that …

Patriots today see government in Washington as an expensive, intrusive institution that limits our freedoms, punishes success, invests in failure and is willing to commit our sons and daughters to far-flung adventures in the name of international comity.Today’s American patriots see many of those who govern as self-serving power brokers, interested less in the public good than in their own political potency. Oliver North
Marine Colonel Oliver North, July 4, 1995, The Guardian