“The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.”
— Elihu Root
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“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.”
— David Hume
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“I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.”
— Buffalo Bill
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“The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.”
— Vladimir Lenin
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“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”
— Richard M. Nixon
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“I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.”
— James Madison
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“If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?”
— Tony Campolo
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“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”
— Richard Lamm
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“Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.”
— John Stuart Mill
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