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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
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"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."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."

"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."

"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate."

"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
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