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"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
"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."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"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."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
"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."
"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
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