"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. The history of the present King is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
-The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

"I don't trust government. And neither should our citizens."
—US Senator Larry Craig (Republican Party), United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, "DOJ Oversight: Terrorism and Other Topics", testimony by US Attorney General John Ashcroft re President George Bush Jr.'s Executive Orders to "legalize torture" of US citizens and crushing the testicles of small children in front of their parents in Iraq, and refusal to release that memo (felony Contempt of Congress), C-SPAN2, June 8, 2004

"It is illegal for law enforcement agencies to issue quotas for citations or arrests of individuals. The Fraternal Order of Police strongly disagrees with this illegal action and respectfully requests you rescind this action of supervisors at the Knoxville Police Department. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's still a duck. It's a quota."
—Edward Daniel, ex-cop and attorney at law for Fraternal Order of Police, Press Release by FOP, Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville Journal, July 1998

"Cops have a quota system."
—Sgt. James Eagan, New York State Police (Retired), from his book, A Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets

"EXPECTATIONS FOR JUNE 1998- MINIMUM OF 3 CONTACTS PER DAY. MINIMUM OF 2 CITATIONS FOR MOVING VIOLATIONS PER DAY WORKED ON THE STREET. MOVING VIOLATIONS- SPEEDING, RECKLESS DRIVING, PASSING RED LIGHT, PASSING STOP SIGN/ SIGNALS, FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY, FAILURE TO YEILD, WRONG SIDE OF ROAD, IMPROPER TURN/PASSING. FAILURE TO MEET EXPECTATIONS WILL BE CAUSE FOR MUCH CLOSER SUPERVISORY SCRUTINY AND CONTROL."
—Stolen email from Captains Meeting, Knoxville Police Department, leaked by Edward Daniel, attorney for Fraternal Order of Police, published in Knoxville Journal

"I was put under pressure. It was like a race. How many more people can we get today?"
—KPD officer under arrest for falsifying evidence, perjury and obstruction of justice, Knoxville, Tennessee, describing the government's illegal quota, Knoxville News-Sentinel

"10% of cops are honest, 10% are dishonest, and 80% wish they were honest."
—Detective Frank Serpico, New York City Police Department, testifying to the Knapp Commission, who put a loaded gun to the head of a cop inside police HQ, in lawful self defense, after the crooked cop pulled a knife and threatened to murder Serpico (Hollywood documentary "Serpico" starring Al Pacino)

"Mr. Speaker, my subject today is whether America is a police state. If we are, what are we going to do about it? Most police states, surprisingly, come about through the democratic process with majority support. The masses are easily led to believe that security and liberty are mutually exclusive, and demand for security far exceeds that for liberty. Our government already keeps close tabs on just about everything we do and requires official permission for nearly all of our activities. One might take a look at our Capitol for any evidence of a police state. We see: barricades, metal detectors, police, military soldiers at times, dogs, ID badges required for every move, vehicles checked at airports and throughout the Capitol. The people are totally disarmed, except for the police and the criminals. But worse yet, surveillance cameras in Washington are everywhere to ensure our safety. Like gun control, people control hurts law-abiding citizens much more than the law-breakers. Centralized control and regulations are required in a police state. Not only do we need a license to drive, but we also need special belts, bags, buzzers, seats and environmentally dictated speed limits. Or a policeman will be pulling us over to levy a fine, and he will be toting a gun for sure. Let's reject the police state."
—Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, MD (R-TX, 2008 candidate for President), speech in House of Representatives, United States Congress, "Are We Doomed To Be a Police State?" June 27, 2002

"I saw two officers as before, who rode up to me, with their pistols in their hands, said God damn you stop, if go an Inch further, you are a dead Man, and swore if we did not turn in to that pasture, they would blow our brains out. Major Mitchel of the 5th Regt clapd his Pistol to my head, and said he was going to ask me some questions, if I did not tell the truth, he would blow my brains out. I told him I esteemed myself a man of truth, that he had stopped me on the highway, & made me a prisoner, I knew not by what right; I would tell him the truth; I was not afraid."
—Colonel Paul Revere, owner of RevereWare¨, sworn affidavit: "Memorandum on Events of April 18, 1775" (declassified Top Secret), while under arrest (and subsequent escape) from Redcoat martial-law traffic police at Minute Man National Historic Park, Paul Revere Capture Site, kicking off the American Revolutionary War (British-American Civil War), at the Battle of Lexington and Concord with justifiable homicide in self defense by shooting and killing over 200 traffic copster slaves of King George III, heriditary dictator of England who attempted "gun control" by an Assault Weapons Ban of defensive 50-caliber muskets and cannon, Paul Revere's Ride, by David Hackett Fischer