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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

"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."

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

"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."
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"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."

"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."

"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."

"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
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