"... the keynote of government is injustice."
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"The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty."
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"The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter."
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"There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be."
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"Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind."
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"We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum."
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"Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera."
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"I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government."
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"All governments require enemy governments."
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"The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic."
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"Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people."
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"The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible."
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"Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government."
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"Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us"
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"Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control."
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"The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time."
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"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers."
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"Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it."
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"It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars."
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"I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards."
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