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" The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it. "

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" I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. "

" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "

" He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. "

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" Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. "

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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. "

" Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. "

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" Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. "

" We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. "

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" When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. "

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" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "

" The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. "

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" The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. "

" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "

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" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "

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" In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "

" Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. "

" No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. "

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" Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. "

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" Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. "

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" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards. "

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" Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. "

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" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

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" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "

" I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. "

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