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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"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."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"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."
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"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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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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Explore more quotes by Anthony Trollope
"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
Ambition
"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."
God
"Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it."
Love
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
Success
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
Mistake
"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
Marriage
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."
Happiness
"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."
Life
"Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour."
Wealth
"An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do."
Love
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