"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."

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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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"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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"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."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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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."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

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"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

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"Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."

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"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

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"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."

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"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

"Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

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"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."

"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."