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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"State first, subject second, statesman last."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."

"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
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