"One law for the lion and ox is oppression."
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"The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States."
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"For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day."
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"Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves."
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"Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered."
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"I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster."
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"No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it."
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"I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere."
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"You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'"
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"The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world."
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"Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?"
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"Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence."
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"I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate."
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"[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness."
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"Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government."
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"ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them."
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"I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth."
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"We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights and especially that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient."
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"It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt."
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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."
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