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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"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."
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
"You measure a government by how few people need help."
"It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government."
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
"It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution."
"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men."
"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
"When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper."
"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."
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