"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."

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"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."

Barack Obama, American President

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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."

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"Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry."

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"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."

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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

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"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

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"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

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"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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"In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law."

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"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully."

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"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."

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