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"A government is for the benefit of all the people."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
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"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."
"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me."
"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."
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