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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."
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