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Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."

— Lenny Bruce Fuck (2005)

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The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!

In The Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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