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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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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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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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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 believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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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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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"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."
Science
"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
Government
"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."
People
"The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may."
Man
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."
Equality
"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."
Unity
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
History
"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty."
Love
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
Leadership
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