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"All government, of course, is against liberty."
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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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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
Religion
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
Unity
"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."
Humor
"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."
Truth
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
Society
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Politics
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