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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"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."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"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."
"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."
"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
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