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Richard Cobden

"The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all."

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"The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all."

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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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Donna Grant

"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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"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."

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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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"But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half."
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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
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"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."
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"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
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