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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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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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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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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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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
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"A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government."
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"By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana."
Land
"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."
Man
"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."
Society
"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."
History
"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
Government
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
People
"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."
Power
"Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session."
Change
"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
People
"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
Government
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