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Thomas W. Higginson

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."

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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

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"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."

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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