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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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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – 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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In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down. – Rick Perry

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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And itll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth. – Stephen Fry

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The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. – Mitch Daniels

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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon

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We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

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