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"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence."
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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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"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."
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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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"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
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"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
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"America slept because most Americans preferred it that way."
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"The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't."
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"All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth."
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"We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes."
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"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."
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"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written."
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"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."
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"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence."
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