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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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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

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Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

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Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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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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Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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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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Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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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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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

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