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"It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government."
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"Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people."
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."
"They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them."
"A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!"
"Every word of etatistic thought is contradicted by the doctrines of sociology and economics; this is why etatists endeavour to prove that these sciences do not exist. In their opinion, social affairs are shaped by the State. To the law, all things are possible; and there is no sphere in which State intervention is not omnipotent."
"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."
"Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't."
"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
"As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it."
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
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