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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
Virtue
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
Government
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
People
"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
Law
"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."
Man
"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
Income
"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
Environment
"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
Knowledge
"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
Nature
"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
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