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"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."
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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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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"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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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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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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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
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"Business is in itself a power."
Business
"Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business."
Business
"There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did."
History
"The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice."
Economy
"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."
Government
"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."
Security
"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."
Worth
"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."
Power
"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."
Government
"To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware."
Revolution
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