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"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

"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."

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

"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

"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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"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."

"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."

"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."

"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."

"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."

"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."
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