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"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs."
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"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
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"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."
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"The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts."
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"Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea."
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"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."
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"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
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"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."
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"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."
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"Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs."
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