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"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."
"Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to."
"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government."
"It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office."
"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."
"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
"I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today."
"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."
"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."
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