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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
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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 instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."
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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
People
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
Poetry
"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
Progress
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be."
History
"I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors."
History
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
Man
"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
Morality
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
Pain
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