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Found a greatquotealready!

Exactly why less government is preferrable to the "security" provided by diminishment of rights:

It has been said too that our governments both federal and particular want energy; that it is difficult to restrain both individuals and states from committing wrongs. This is true, and it is an inconvenience. On the other hand that energy which absolute governments derive from an armed force, which is the effect of the bayonet constantly held at the breast of every citizen, and which resembles very much the stillness of the grave, must be admitted also to have it's inconveniences. We weigh the two together, and like best to submit to the former. Compare the number of wrongs committed with impunity by citizens among us, with those committed by the sovereigns in other countries, and the last will be found most numerous, most oppressive on the mind, and most degrading of the dignity of man. (emphasis added)

--Thomas Jefferson

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch9s1.html
 
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Our FF, dead white men told us of all the dangers of democracy but we forgot and ignored and so are doomed to relearn their lessons. I fear that there isn't enough spine remaining to reproduce the American Revolution.

Prepare to be assimilated by the BOG! Resistance to the Obamination is futile.

George Orwell, in Ninteen Eighty-four had it just right, but for the misspelling of Big Brother's predicate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
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Common obaminable campaign signs nearby featured silhouette caricatures reminiscent of the 'Andre the Giant Has a Posse' OBEY Giant posters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ObeyGiant.jpg
OBEY Giant poster on building

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. Obaminable NRA KMA$$
 
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