The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. (Quote by - John Locke)

As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency. (Quote by - Steven Aftergood)

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. (Quote by - Grover Glenn Norquist)

What's so bizarre about this, is for the past three months the Colorado legislature has been trying to abolish all legislation dealing with guns. (Quote by - Wellington Webb)