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 "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. 
 Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.  
 Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. 
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for read more
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.
England is the mother of parliaments.
England is the mother of parliaments.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our read more
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
 Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
 [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna 
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 Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
 [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna 
charta.] 
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has read more
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to read more
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.