"You cannot educate the willingly stupid."
Glenn Bevin

"Be not intimidated, nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice."
Samuel Adams

"One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it."
Col. Jeff Cooper

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt 1781

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Tacitus 55?-130?