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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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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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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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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."
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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
Medical
"I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution."
Integrity
"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."
Politics
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
People
"This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose."
Faith
"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars."
War
"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
Survival
"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
Life
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
President
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Leadership
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