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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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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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"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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"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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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
Enemy
"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men."
Time
"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
Man
"I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric."
Care
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
Society
"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
God
"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."
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