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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a
people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty
ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House
will be adorned by a downright moron.
- in government
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The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and
what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive
values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is
afraid of its people.
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A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or
perhaps both.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to
a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government.
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the
progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths
discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace
with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to
remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the
children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy
and the handicapped.
- in government
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Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no
people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year
earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
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To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering
together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the economy --
around.
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Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper.
This dims the sense of reality.
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The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and
keep them honest. No one else can.
- in government
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to
restrain him.
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