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Jeane Kirkpatrick

"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."

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"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."

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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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"I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity."
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"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
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"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."
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"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
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"In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente."
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"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
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"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."
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"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."
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"And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril."
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