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"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"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."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"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."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

"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."

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."

"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press."

"I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing."

"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."

"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."

"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities."

"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."

"Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy."
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