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Mark Twain

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

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Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

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Mark Twain

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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Adam Smith

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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Adam Smith

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order

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Helen Keller

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

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Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Country Deserve Government Help Patriotism Support

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Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Goodness Government Man

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Adam Smith

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Art Democracy Government Learning Money People Politics

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Abraham Lincoln

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

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Adam Smith

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

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