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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
"Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by."
"So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future."
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
"I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government."
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"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
"But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted."
"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe."
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
"Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other."
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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