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"The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control."
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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."
"In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government."
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
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"Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth."
"This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished."
"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care."
"The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys."
"In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails."
"First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice."
"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."
"And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area."
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