Quotes:

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.":thumbsup:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us, by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

Two of my favorites:

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

ALL of these, to this point, are quotes from Thomas Jefferson

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin

These nasty gangster style bills MUST be stopped. If this atrocity passes, just imagine the next one.