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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.

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I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

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Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

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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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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

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Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.

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WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

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We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.

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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

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