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“Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays

“To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience.”
― Jonathan Emord, Restore the Republic

“Transformed from a protector of all liberty to a selective protector of civil liberty, the federal government has proceeded to cause and condone all manner of takings, whether in the form of licensing regimes that have driven out of existence those employed whom the state chooses not to license or in the form of regulations that so increase the cost of operation as to produce the anti-competitive end of allowing only well heeled market leaders to remain in the market.”
― Jonathan Emord, Restore the Republic