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"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. "

or

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

or even

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

and or,
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. "

Thomas Jefferson.