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"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."

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"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."

"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."

"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in."

"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
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