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"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
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"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"
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"Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!"
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"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings."
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"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
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"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
Self-Control
"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."
Gratitude
"You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
Trust
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can."
Duty
"With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now."
Present
"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."
Morality
"A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness."
Gender
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
Health
"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
Morality
"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
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