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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."
"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
"Every country has the government it deserves."
"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."
"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
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