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"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."
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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."
"You measure a government by how few people need help."
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."
"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."
"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."
"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."
"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."
"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."
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