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Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

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Government should do a few things, and do them right

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

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Morality is the object of government.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

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Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".

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The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government, and it has helped break up terror cells in the United States of America and the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act. The Patriot Act.

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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

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A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

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