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"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
"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."
"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
"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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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