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"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
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"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
"One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I."
"Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries."
"And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
"It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights."
"The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition."
"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."
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