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"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."
"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."
"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
"I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government."
"Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government."
"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
"But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate."
"I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity."
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"It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature."
"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."
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