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"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic."
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"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."
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"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."
"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."
"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."
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