Revolutionary Government

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“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)