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" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
Thomas Jefferson
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" I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. "
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" We never repent of having eaten too little. "
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" Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. "
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" When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. "
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" We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. "
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" I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. "
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" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "
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" Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. "
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" A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. "
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" The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. "
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" Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens. "
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" I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country. "
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" We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. "
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" The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government. "
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" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "
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" I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching. "
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" We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. "
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" I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. "
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" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "
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" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "
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" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "
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" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "
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" How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. "
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" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "
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" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "
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" He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. "
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" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "
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" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. "
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