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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently -…

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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

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As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding… — Larry Bird
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do. — Scottie Pippen
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it. — Rodney Mullen
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I… — Ariel Sharon
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure… — Ernest Thompson Seton
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself… — Frederick Douglass
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it. — Glenn Greenwald

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