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"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."
"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."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
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"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation."
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