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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count read more
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should read more
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
 When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will 
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in read more 
 When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will 
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible 
struggle. 
 The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made 
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, read more 
 The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made 
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an 
insult. 
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought read more
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.