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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"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."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"You measure a government by how few people need help."
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
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