Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson
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Charles de Montesquieu, an 18th-century French writer, once said that "Liberty has never come from the government; liberty has always come from the subjects of the government." He was speaking about the subjects of government. If you are a subject of government, this means that you are not ruling over the government (which is called sovereignty) but rather under it. This means that you are subject to all of its laws and rules.

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