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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 think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."

"The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts."

"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."

"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."

"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."

"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."

"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."
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