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"My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."

"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."

"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."

"If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery."

"When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying."

"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."

"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."

"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
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"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."

"I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away."

"Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty."

"I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer."

"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."
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