"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."

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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

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

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

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"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."

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"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."

"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."