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Auberon Herbert

"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."

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Donna Grant

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."

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Donna Grant

"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up."

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Auberon Herbert
"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."

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Auberon Herbert
"The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations."

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Auberon Herbert
"I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time."

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Auberon Herbert
"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves."

Government

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Auberon Herbert
"There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered."

Men

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Auberon Herbert
"And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others."

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Auberon Herbert
"How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed."

Men

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Auberon Herbert
"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do."

Men

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Auberon Herbert
"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."

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Auberon Herbert
"You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act."

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