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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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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."

"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."

"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."

"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."

"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

"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."

"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."

"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."

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

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

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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