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Bao Dai

"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."

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"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."

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"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."

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"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."

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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

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"Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile."

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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."

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