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"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them."
Poetry
"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
Art
"To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential."
Poetry
"It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse."
Poetry
"When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life."
Life
"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
Poetry
"Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."
Life
"For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts."
Poetry
"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people."
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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
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