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Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top, there is no limit to repression.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.- Benjamin Franklin
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Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
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Our government has been tried in peace, and it has been tried in war, and has proved itself fit for both. It has been assailed from without, and it has successfully resisted the shock; it has been disturbed within, and it has effectually quieted the disturbance. It can stand trial, it can stand assail, it can stand adversity, it can stand everything but the marring of its own beauty and the weakening of its own strength. It can stand everything but the effects of our own rashness and our own folly. It can stand everything but disorganization, disunion and nullification.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.’ George Washington
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‘People don”t start wars, governments do.’
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People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.’ Dwight David Eisenhower
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Perish commerce. Let the constitution live!
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Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.
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Power is detested, and miserable is the life of him who wishes rather to be feared than to be loved.
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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. [Fr., Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.]
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