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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"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."

"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 diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies."

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."
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