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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Henry David Thoreau Resistance to Civil Government · 1849

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“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

John F. Kennedy · Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, 1961 · Primary source

“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.”

Henry David Thoreau · Resistance to Civil Government, 1849 · Primary source

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