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"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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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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"You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position."

"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."

"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."

"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."

"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."

"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."

"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
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