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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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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
"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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"The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music."
"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."
"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."
"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."
"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."
"So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse."
"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."
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