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"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"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 instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
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"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies."
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."
"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."
"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master."
"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity."
"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."
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