"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

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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."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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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."

Woody Allen, American Director

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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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"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."

James Madison, American President

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

Patricia Schroeder, American Leader

Government, People, Help, Measure

"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."

Mark Warner, American Politician

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."

Life

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Morality

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Beauty

"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."

Friendship

"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."

Criticism

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

Character

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

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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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"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."