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Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
2/6
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
3/6
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
4/6
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain: that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
6/6
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
