"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity."
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"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
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"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother."
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"He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation."
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"If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government."
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"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
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"When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident."
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"Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else."
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"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
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"The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic."
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"The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible."
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
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"The government has no money of its own. It's all your money."
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"If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies."
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"We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the governments of the world know that’s what they want."
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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
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"We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong."
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"I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."
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"I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it."
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"Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them."
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