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War is like government, a matter of tact.

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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

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The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

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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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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

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In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

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

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

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A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

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