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"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
History
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
Money
"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
Politics
"We love your adherence to democratic principles."
Love
"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
Being
"Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it."
People
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
Authority
"To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue."
Money
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
Intelligence
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
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