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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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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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"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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"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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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
Conscience
"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
Man
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
Truth
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
Government
"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
Intelligence
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
Truth
"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
God
"Avarice is the vice of declining years."
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"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
Society
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
Envy
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