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“It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.”

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Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”

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Author:Carl Menger

“The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.”

“No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.”

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Book:An Essay on the Trial by Jury

Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury

“The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”

“Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”

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Author:Andrew Jackson

“Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.”

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Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.”

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Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”