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"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."
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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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"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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"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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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."
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"There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did."
History


"This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic."
Economy


"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."
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"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."
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"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."
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"Business is in itself a power."
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"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental."
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"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws."
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"Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power."
Power
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