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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."
"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."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
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"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."
"Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously."
"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."
"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."
"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
"Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences."
"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."
"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."
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