They cannot disrupt your life if you don’t depend on them.
It was never their job to feed you, to clothe you—it’s not their job.
And when you gave them that job, they let you down.
History warned you. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” —Thomas Paine.
By magic, you pin your survival on them,
and they use it against you—your vote, your voice—
undermining the Republic, hollowing democracy.
Shut it down again. My life won’t change.
Because I do not depend on them.
Why would you? Politicians are masks.
You don’t know the good guy from the bad.
That’s the foolishness—thinking they’ll save you.
Thomas Paine Quotes“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
- “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
- “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
- “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Patrick Henry Quotes
- “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
- “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.”
- “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
- “Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”
- “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
- “Power is the great evil with which we are contending… If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”
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