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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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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 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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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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"We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Wellness
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship
"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
Leadership
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Wisdom
"Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"
Politics
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Politics
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Religion
"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
Justice
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