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- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. — Henry David Thoreau
- When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
- And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. — Joseph Story
- A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. — Joseph Story
- A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. — Joseph Story