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Quote by Jonathan Swift
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – Jonathan Swift

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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. – Walter Lippmann

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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison

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