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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
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"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"
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"Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!"
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"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings."
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"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"
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"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
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"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
Art
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
Habit
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
Sacrifice
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
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"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Heaven
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
Conversation
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
"I work as my father drank."
Personal
"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
Fortune
"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
Family
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