“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.”
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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
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“I have to be someone; maybe I'm just doing it for my father. When I made a movie, it had to be a hit because when he died, he was a flop director.”
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