“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”

“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”

“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government.”

“Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.”

“The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.”

“Individuals had never much cared what had happened in the past, or would happen in the future, or how much others of their kind suffered or lacked. They did not care how many others died providing they lived. And government, to those who did not govern, had been largely a matter of indifference unless it happened to have a detrimental effect on the lives of individuals. Then, maybe, if the individuals had felt strongly enough, they had held protests, gone on strike, or started revolutions.”