“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”
“If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”
“I don't trust the Society, and I don't trust the rebelions, I don't choose either of them, I've seen what both can do.”
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”
“I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.”
“People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting”