The Denver Gazette: Nineteenth-century American lawyer, journalist and politician Gideon J. Tucker had a warning: “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.”

President Ronald Reagan spoke of the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

A quote attributed to President George Washington implores: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

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