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"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government."
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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."
"In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government."
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
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"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."
"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."
"I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs."
"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."
"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."
"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."
"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."
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