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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies,...
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly...
It is hard to believe that a man...
The men the American people admire most...
And what is a good citizen? Simply...
The older I grow the more I distrust...
The world always makes the assumption that...
It [the State] has taken on a vast...
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste...
The objection to Puritans is not that...
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply...
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There...
It is the fundamental theory of all...
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve...
The most dangerous man, to any government,...
The governmen...
I believe that liberty is the only...
The urge to save humanity is almost...
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose...
As democracy is perfected, the office of president...
I believe there is a limit beyond...
Democracy is the theory that the common...
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep...
The notion that a radical is one...
It is the theory of all modern...
Democracy is a form of religion, it is the...
When a new source of taxation is found...
We must respect the other fellow's religion,...
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its...
Debate, it seems to me, is one...
All I ask is equal freedom. When...
The urge to save humanity is almost...
For every problem there is one solution...
The governmen...
Under democracy one party always devotes its...
Every election is a sort of advance...
The most dangerous man, to any government,...
The common notion that free speech prevails...
No one ever heard of the truth...
The average man does not want to be free....
The only good bureaucrat is one with...
Every decent man is ashamed of the government...
A Galileo could no more be elected...
The whole drift of our law is toward...
People constantly speak of 'the government' doing...
To die for an idea: it is unquestionably...
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized...
No one ever heard of the truth...
Conscience is the inner voice that warns...
I believe that all government is evil,...
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