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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

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I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

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Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

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What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

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