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A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor read more
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be,
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one
dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent States.
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of state,
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Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of state,
But such as serves a present strait.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one read more
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
