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George Washington

"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."

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"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

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"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty."

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"It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."
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"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
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