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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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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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"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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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
American
"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War
"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
Cancer
"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
Government
"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
Intelligence
"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
Nation
"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."
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"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."
Life
"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
Court
"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
Work
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