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When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

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It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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