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"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"
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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
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"State first, subject second, statesman last."
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"Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts."
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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream
"The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact."
Spiritual
"Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated."
Education
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world."
Nature
"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
Wisdom
"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."
Wisdom
"The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day."
Art
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Wisdom
"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
Truth
"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."
Writing
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