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"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."
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"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."

"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."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

"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."

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
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"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."

"There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars."
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