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"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
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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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"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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"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 instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
Democracy
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
Politics
"In politics the middle way is none at all."
Politics
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Society
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
Love
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
Government
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
Imagination
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
Government
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
Nation
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
Nature
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