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"I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"
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"In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans."
People
"I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government."
Government
"The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession."
Government
"Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?"
Nature
"It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments."
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"I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them."
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"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants."
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