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"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
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"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society."
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"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life."
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"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
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"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
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"The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered."
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"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good."
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"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."
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