"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."
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"You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more."
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"I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon."
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"History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise."
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"I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government."
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"What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political."
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"The basis of effective government is public confidence."
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"Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function."
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"As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to."
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"I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other."
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"...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best."
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"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
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"I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands."
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"If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government."
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"Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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"Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside."
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"I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research."
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"Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder."
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"If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy."
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