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"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"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 found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."
"There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance."
"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."
"For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life."
"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war."
"In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons."
"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."
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