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"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
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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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"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
"No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'."
"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."
"In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character."
"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."
"The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team."
"Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?"
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