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"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
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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."

"But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government."
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"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."

"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."

"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

"It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men."
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