"The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income."
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
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"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."
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"The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
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"Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems."
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"Love your country, but never trust its government."
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"For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way."
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"For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part."
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"History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
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"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."
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"The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands."
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"A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly."
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"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
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"Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible."
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"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
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"A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people."
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"Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror"
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"Democracy is "government of, by and for the people"."
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"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
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