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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a
government without a king.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a
government without a king.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government read more
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on
the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.
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 thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust.
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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.
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its read more
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?