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"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."

"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

"The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
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"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."


"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."


"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."


"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."


"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."


"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."


"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
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