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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

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Liberty is its own reward.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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The object of government is the welfare of the people.

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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

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Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

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

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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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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

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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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In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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

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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

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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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