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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"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."

"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State."


"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."


"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."


"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."


"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."
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