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The history of governments through the ages is a history red, nay, lurid. Law represents the effort of men to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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The important thing for government is not to do things which individuals are doing already and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.’ Winston Churchill
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
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The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.
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The less government we have, the better.
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The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones.
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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
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The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men each to govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience, but the gift of office is the dreadful burthen which oppresses him.
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The people have lost the confidence of the government; the government has decided to dissolve the people, and to appoint another one. Bertolt Brecht quotes
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The people’s government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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The plague of government is senile delinquency.
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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away.
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The poor taxpaying people. [Lat., Misera contribuens plebs.]
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The Pope sends for him . . . and (says he) ‘We will be merry as we were before, for thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.’
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