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"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."
"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
"Every country has the government it deserves."
"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."
"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."
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"Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream."
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
"After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth."
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
"I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid."
"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."
"The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board."
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