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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
The government is us we are the government, you and I.
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.