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"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
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"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
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"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
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"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
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"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"Crying wolf is a real danger."
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"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."
People
"I'm not in politics."
Politics
"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
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"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
Travel
"Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds."
Hell
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
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"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."
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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
Life
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