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"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."
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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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"I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice."


"Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy."


"Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots."


"We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."


"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."


"Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life."
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