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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were read more
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the read more
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.
 "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as 
anything comes across him in the read more 
 "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as 
anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens 
not to like. 
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious read more
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
 So then because some towns in England are not represented, 
America is to have no representative at all. They read more 
 So then because some towns in England are not represented, 
America is to have no representative at all. They are "our 
children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a 
stone. 
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should read more
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.