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"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."
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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
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"The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away."
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"I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service."
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"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."
"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."
"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."
"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
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