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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
"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."
"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
"This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country."
"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
"Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion."
"I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity."
"These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable."
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"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."
"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."
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