"When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?"

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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

— Benjamin Franklin