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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"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."

"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."

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

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody."

"I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change."

"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."

"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."

"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."

"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."

"Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to."

"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that."
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