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"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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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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"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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"A government of laws, and not of men."
Government
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
Government
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Exercise
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
Mankind
"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 Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
Politics
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
War
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
Imagination
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