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The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
 So then because some towns in England are not represented, 
America is to have no representative at all. They read more 
 So then because some towns in England are not represented, 
America is to have no representative at all. They are "our 
children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a 
stone. 
A government of laws, and not of men.
A government of laws, and not of men.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read read more
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in read more
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
 I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years 
ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.  
 I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years 
ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.