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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Government is not a warfare of interests.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

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Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

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Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

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None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

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