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"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
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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."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"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."
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"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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