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"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"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."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"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."
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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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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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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike."
Love
"The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission."
Blood
"I am a poor hater."
Poor
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
Wisdom
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
Man
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
Government
"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
College
"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
Luck
"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life."
Life
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."
Life
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