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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

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They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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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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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

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I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

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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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