"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."

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"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"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."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

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"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."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"You measure a government by how few people need help."

Patricia Schroeder, American Leader

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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."

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"Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver."

John McHugh, American Politician

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"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."

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"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."

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"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better."

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"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."

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"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."

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"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."

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"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."

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"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."

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"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."

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