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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
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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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"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
Soul
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
Money
"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."
Democracy
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
History
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
Politics
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
Government
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
Faith
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
Man
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
Life
"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."
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