"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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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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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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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."

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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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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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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

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"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."

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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

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"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."

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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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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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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."

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