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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, bu

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, but dont insult me poor bleedin country. – Edward Abbey

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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey

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Thats the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesnt matter much whether you get where youre going or not. Youll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. – Edward Abbey

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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. – Edward Abbey

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Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if were some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. Its a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. – Paul Ryan

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I think the countrys getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. – George McGovern

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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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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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