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"If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random."

"That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals."

"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel."

"The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy."

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

"I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy."

"Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks."
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"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"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."

"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
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