"[‘Governments’] are to liberty what whiskey, brandy, and gin are to temperance. They belong to ‘the kingdoms of this world,’ and are in due time to be utterly destroyed by the brightness of the coming of Him ‘whose right it is to reign,’ and by the erection of a kingdom which cannot be shaken."
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"[‘Governments’] are not for the people, but make the people their prey; they are hostile to all progress; they resist to the utmost all radical changes. All history shows that Liberty, Humanity, Justice and Right have ever been in conflict with existing governments, no matter what their theory or form."
~ William Lloyd Garrison, 1856