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"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
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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."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
"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."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."
"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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