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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.
Karl Marx 
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If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
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