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"The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves."
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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."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"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."
"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good."
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
"Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family."
"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."
"No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."
"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world."
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