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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
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