"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."

Government, Character, Future, Promise

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"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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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."

Barack Obama, American President

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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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."

James Madison, American President

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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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."

Barack Obama, American President

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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."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."

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"All real education is the architecture of the soul."

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"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

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"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."

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"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."

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"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."

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"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."

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"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."

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"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."

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