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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
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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."
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
"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."
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"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd."
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