Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
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Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.
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You know, the United States Government turns its Chief Executive out to grass. They're just allowed to starve.. If I hadn't inherited some property that finally paid things through, I'd be on relief now.
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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