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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"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."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"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."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."
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"You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent."
Behavior
"A promise must never be broken."
Promise
"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."
People
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
Man
"I think the first duty of society is justice."
Society
"In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources."
Progress
"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
Politics
"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal."
Man
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."
Nature
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