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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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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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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
Evolution

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
Democracy

"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Politics

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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"Life is a dead-end street."
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