14. 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no
authority except by God’s appointment, and the authorities that exist have been
instituted by God. 2 So the person who resists such authority resists the
ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Romans 13:1-2 NET
comments:
If you do not want to follow the system, be the System.
15. Finch
If our own government was responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred
thousand people... would you really want to know?
from V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
comments:
People do not want to know the truth. Let them not know.
16. Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on
government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for
these. Hence The less government we have the better, the fewer laws , and the
less confided Power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government is the
influence of private character, the growth of the individual;
Essays, Second Series [1844]
Politics by Ralph Waldo Emerson
comments: And then there was one. More often then not one is better than
many, so now be the one