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"The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."

"I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today."

"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties."

"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."

"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me."

"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."

"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."
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