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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"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."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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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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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
History
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
Time
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"To hold a pen is to be at war."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
Man
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