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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"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."

"The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."

"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."
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"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."


"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."


"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."


"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
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