You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around-don't hesitate to do so.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.