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"If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none."
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"Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people."
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."
"They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them."
"A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!"
"Every word of etatistic thought is contradicted by the doctrines of sociology and economics; this is why etatists endeavour to prove that these sciences do not exist. In their opinion, social affairs are shaped by the State. To the law, all things are possible; and there is no sphere in which State intervention is not omnipotent."
"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."
"Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't."
"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
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