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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."

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Donna Grant

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

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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

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Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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"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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"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
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"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."
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