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"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
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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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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would."
"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."
"Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions."
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