Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

- Federick Douglass

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

- Thomas Jefferson

This is along the same lines as "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Government power must always remain in-check by an educated population. If this does not happen, it doesn't matter how benevolent the current leader is, as the government will always decay into tyranny.

Authorized and paid for by Nick Coons for Congress.

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