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"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

"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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"We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle."

"Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music."

"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."

"I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium."
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