Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.
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There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
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Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
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When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
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