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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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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
"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."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"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."
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"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."
"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
"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."
"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
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