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"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."
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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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"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."
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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
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"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."
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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."
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"His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected."
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"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more."
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"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."
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"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."
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