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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 government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"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."
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
"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."
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